Top 10 Reasons Why Brazilians Recommend a Gringo Writer's Epic of "Brazil"

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Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 27, 2012 -- Brazil, the epic novel by Errol Lincoln Uys, is a spellbinding saga of two powerful families that depicts five turbulent centuries in the history of a remarkable land.

From colony to kingdom, from empire to nation, Brazil is filled with memorable people living through one of the great adventures in human history.

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Top 10 Reasons Why Brazilians Recommend a Gringo Writer's Epic of "Brazil"

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The Cavalcantis are among the original settlers and establish the classic Brazilian plantation -- vast, powerful, and built with slave labor. The da Silvas represent the second element in both contemporary and historical Brazil: pathfinders and prospectors.

Just how successful Errol Lincoln Uys is in capturing the Brazilian “thing” is best judged by what Brazilian readers say about his 800-page historical novel. Here's a sampling of comments from readers' letters published on Brazil's website:

Top 10 Readers’ Comments on Brazil

!. "Truly a Masterpiece - a fantastic journey through the centuries"

2. "A Brazilian Rite of Passage"

3. "A Truly Amazing Read"

4. "Brazil is a Classic"

5. "I feel more 'Brazilian’ after reading Brazil

6. "A Monumental Novel - As Great and Grand, as Michener's Source"

7. "Brazil draws me as surely as the mystery of South America itself"

8. "I Am Mesmerized"

9. "Loved it! It's Fabulous!"

10. "A Beautiful Work! Brazil is gripping, easy to understand."

Professor Wilson Martins, a major Brazilian critic, says Uys (pronounced "'Ace",) a South African-born Boston author, is "the first to write our national epic in all its decisive episodes -- the first outsider to see Brazil with total honesty and sympathy. Uys was able to accomplish what no Brazilian author from José de Alencar to Jorge Amado was able to do.

"What we have in front of us is the Brazilian national epic in all its decisive episodes - the indigenous civilization and the El Dorado myth that they themselves created and supported, passing it on to the hallucinated imaginations of the conqueror; the discovery and domination of the North-East; the Bandeiras and geographical expansion; the gold rush and nationalist feeling present, not only in the struggle against the Dutch but also the Inconfidência Mineira; the Royal Family's arrival and the Independence; the Second Reign and the war with Paraguay; the Abolition and the Republic - everything converging like the segments of a rose window in that reborn and metamorphosized myth that is Brasília

"Uys shows a total empathy with the decisive moments in our history and their spiritual meaning: Indians, Portuguese, Mamelucos, Pernambucanos, Paulistas identify themselves through the centuries, not merely as historical figures but with the psychology and sentiment of the Brazilian. As one of the characters states, already in the eighteenth century, the bandeirantes were inspired to search for mines for the greater glory and richness of the king, and the Pernambucanos were at the same time consolidating the economic and political structure, 'but when we think in the present, we just see Brazil.'

"Uys's vigorous narrative art and descriptive force shows an author completely at home with the immense historical mural he has before him. Descriptions like those of the war with Paraguay, particularly the battle of Tuiuti (a scene also depicted by João Ubaldo Ribeiro in one of the most important sections of his novel) do not find in our literature any rival capable of surpassing them, and they evoke the great passages of War and Peace rather than best-sellers of current extraction. "

The Kindle e-book edition of Brazil ($9.99) includes a free Illustrated Guide to Brazil, the Novel that includes three hundred images and maps. Plus The Making of Brazil, which tells how the novel was written from start to final manuscript; The Journey, which narrates the author’s four-month 20,000-kilometer trek across Brazil.

The Print Edition ($19.95 plus shipping) can be bought directly at the author’s website or via Amazon, with personally autographed copies available from the author.

What better way for the reader-explorer of a nation as vast as Brazil to discover a totally new and dynamic world free from the eternal stereotypes about this great country.

More information can be found online at http://erroluys.com/BrazilPage1.htm

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