Usina

Abstract

Usina is a direct continuation of the events that took place in Banguê. The book is the fourth in what has become known as the “Sugarcane Cycle” in the work of the writer from Paraíba. The protagonist of the book is Ricardo, who was introduced in “Menino de Engenho” (Steel Mill Boy). In the book, Ricardo returns to the Santa Rosa sugar mill after serving a prison sentence in Fernando de Noronha, and finds the world he knew completely transformed by industrialization. This adaptation to a strange reality, with different codes of conduct and a new social organization, is more difficult than the years of confinement in prison.