The Violent Land (Portuguese: Terras do Sem Fim) is a Brazilian Modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1943 and published in English in 1945.

is as dear to me as The Violent Land, in it lie my roots; it is from the blood from which I was created; it contains the gunfire that resounded during my early infancy", and suggested that the novel belongs to a distinct Brazilian "literature of cacao".

As Alfred MacAdam notes in his introduction to the 2013 Penguin edition, the battles between cocoa planters that he records "will inevitably remind today's readers of the warfare between drug cartels in any number of Latin American countries.

"[2] The novel recounts the warfare between cocoa 'colonels', the large plantation owners seeking to achieve dominance over a wide area.

Ambushes, legal chicanery, stealing plantations and taking possession of virgin forest are all methods employed to achieve this dominance.