The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
A great book. First published AD 1956, written in Portuguese
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is a novel published in 1956 by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa.
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Where it is set
- Minas Gerais
Brazil
Grande Sertão: Veredas is the complex story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like inland of the Rio São Francisco, known as Sertão, of the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia in the dawn of the 20th century. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
- Bahia
Brazil
Grande Sertão: Veredas is the complex story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like inland of the Rio São Francisco, known as Sertão, of the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia in the dawn of the 20th century. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
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