Brazil

This tome has its dry sections (the Paraguay War being the biggest), but it is, overall, a good to excellent series of snapshots of the country’s development, which does a great job of focusing on social issues as well as covering the larger context.

was a really fun read IF you like history

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“A masterpiece! Brazil has the feel of an enchanted virgin forest, a totally new and original world for the reader-explorer to discover.” – L’Express, Paris



“Pulsing with vigor, this is a vast novel to tell the story of a vast country. Uys recreates history almost entirely ‘at ground level,’ through the eyes and actions of an awesome cast of characters.” – Publishers Weekly



“A massive, richly detailed novel, informative and intriguing. Uys has a sense of pace and an eye for detail that rarely fail him.” – Washington Post



“Uys has accomplished what no Brazilian author from José de Alencar to Jorge Amado was able to do. show more He is the first outsider with the total honesty and sympathy to write our national epic in all its decisive episodes. Descriptions like those of the war with Paraguay are unsurpassed in our literature and evoke the great passages of War and Peace” – Wilson Martins, Jornal do Brasil show less