The Devil to Pay in the Backlands

Name: The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Author: Joao Guimaraes Rosa

by Joao Guimaraes Rosa

Epic novel of civil strife and religious obsession in Brazil's backlands

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Joao Guimaraes Rosa

Brazilian master whose novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands reinvented Portuguese prose with a linguistic richness fusing regional dialect, neologism, and philosophical depth. He is the most linguistically inventive writer in Brazilian literature.

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