Title page of the book Aves de Arribação [Cearense soap opera] - Antonio Salles

RACHEL DE QUEIROZ
"It's a book that, after
throughout the interior of Ceará, there is not a word about drought! The paisa The lands he describes are always the green meadows, the flowing streams
of, the trays in bloom. Nothing from the skeletal and hungry Ceará, the Ceará of droughts and migrants. And the most curious thing of all is that this Ceará by Antônio Sales not only exists, but exists more constantly and truly than the another, the dramatic Ceará of the times of the scourge. Why is it pre It is important not to forget that drought is a sporadic occurrence, fortunately spaced in glosses or decades. And there have been blessed periods
of more than ten years without drought." [Rachel de Queiroz, Academia Cearense de Letras, s/d.]