← Joao Guimaraes RosaThe Devil to Pay in the Backlandsby Joao Guimaraes RosaEpic Brazilian novel of outlaws and violence in the backlands of Minas GeraisFind on Amazon↗About the authorJoao Guimaraes RosaBrazilian author whose The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is the great Brazilian novel of the sertao hinterland, told in a radically invented language mixing regional dialect with neologism and archaism. He transformed Portuguese prose.More by Joao Guimaraes RosaSagaranaCollection of short novels evoking the mythic landscape of interior Brazil→The Third Bank of the RiverPhilosophical novella exploring meaning through the image of a boat on a river→Corpo de Baile→