Backlands

"Backlands" in a Sentence (2 examples)

"Rebellion in the Backlands", by Euclides da Cunha, is an enormous book with more than 300 pages.

In this world, nothing is more beautiful than hearing a sad rooster in the backlands when there is moonlight. It even seems that hidden in the throat of that rooster, the soul of the moon sings in counterpoint, sobbing.

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