Over the years, I've received many wonderful letters and e-mails from readers of my novel, Brazil. These excerpts are from ten of my favorites, words of appreciation that make my epic literary journey so worthwhile and rewarding:
* "You truly depict the life and soul of a people about whom not much has been written in English. Brazil is a classic which will be enjoyed by many in the years to come."-- Agenor Soares dos Santos.
* "Brazil draws me as surely as the mystery of South America itself...Your writing spells out in simple and often horrifying glimpses, the ingredients of how this mad and lusty world was formed. We will return to the Amazon River next summer for a month of living in the jungle. I'll realize even more just where I am having read Brazil." -- Steve Heath.
* "One of the most fascinating books I have read. I am married to a Brazilian and admit I probably wouldn't have cracked the cover if that were not the case. But I did and I am grateful for that. I am mesmerized by the characters and their exploits."-- Tony Rubolotta.
* "I enjoyed your outstanding novel as much as the great classics of Brazilian literature by Jorge Amado or Gilberto Freye's Master's and Slaves. I don't think that the late, great James Michener or Edward Rutherford could have written about Brazil as well as you did." -- Craig Lockard.
*"Brazil is one of those volumes that I often loan to people who are headed to Brazil for the first time. I take it as an endorsement that the book was not returned to me the last time around, so I am very glad that a new edition is available." -- Charles H. Wood
*"I am a third of the way through Brazil and am nursing it along not wanting it to end. I am amazed how much Brazilian history is becoming clearer in the context of this novel. -- Like Michener's Source helped me understand the Old Testament as nothing else I'd ever studied. -- I wish more people who know and love Brazil knew what a great book this is." -- Nina Velasco.
*"A beautiful work! It took more than a month to read your book, but I enjoyed every moment." -- Max Justo Guedes.
*"Your novel was the first book I ever read about Brazil. I was a graduate student at John Hopkins University and was rethinking my desire to be an Africanist. John Russell Wood leant me his copy of your book and I was hooked. I subsequently went on to focus in Brazilian history for my academic career." -- Judy Bieber.
*"I read your entire book aloud to my husband on a series of trips we made. -- He drove; I read. -- We started in Mato Grosso and finished somewhere in Kansas! The edition we read was an even 1,000 pages. Loved it! It's fabulous!" -- Birdie Hope.
*"I am a reader who usually has four or five books of fiction and non-fiction going simultaneously. Brazil demands only book status. It is a truly amazing read, with a mighty cast of characters -- many of whom leapt from the pages to imprint themselves so indelibly on my mind that I doubt I shall ever forget them." -- Beryl Singelton Bissel
For more reader's comments, visit the Brazil pages on my website.
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