““It was with this book, according to Lins do Rego, that “the Northeast discovered itself as a fatherland (o Nordeste se descobriu como patria).” In its preface, Freyre affirmed that it was “an investigation into northeastern life; the life of five states whose individual destinies have merged into one and whose roots have thoroughly intertwined over the last hundred years.” This hundred years was also, coincidentally, the age of the Diário de Pernambuco as well as of Recife’s law school.””
