The Road to Guadalupe: A Modern Pilgrimage to the Goddess of the Americas

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Summary: BRILLIANT!!!!!
Review: Hanut has a unique gift of incisive analysis, unusual clarity of thinking, mature and articulate style and a miraculous capacity to synthetize creatively and imaginatively vast amounts of seemingly disparate data;I truly believe this book to be the first of a new school of writing, half way between the mundane travelogue and the vision quest This book is a small masterpiece.

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Summary: Hats off to Hanut!!
Review: Hats off to a young and brilliant author who combines lucidity and learning in equal measure!!It is a great achievement, a fully realized study and a milestone in travel books.I could smell the streets of Mexico city; The book is riveting from start to finish!

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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: Having been raised a catholic, I've found this book very challenging;Hanut's quest raises vital issues; This book is probably the most judicious contribution to the demythification of the "Holy" aspect of the mexican clergy; And a step-or two- ahead in the process of recognizing Guadalupe as the Goddess of the Americas.

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Summary: Divinely refreshing!!!!
Review: I am thrilled with this book!Hanut's portrait of today's Mexico city is beguiling, surprising, in some ways, magical- always wonderfully detailed and lyrically told.
Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Hanut has recreated the atmosphere of holy shrines with all their roundness and intricate corners.In a compelling blending of fact and interpretation, he gives us the real icon behind "America's Empress and Virgin". On a more personal note- i am also grateful to the author for sharing his doubts, his struggles with his own faith.How utterly refreshing , in a world of 'super-mystical-men'!!This book will last-It is already a classic; Bravo!!!

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Summary: READS LIKE A CLASSIC!
Review: I got this superb book for Christmas and I already finished it!It is brilliantly written; A great feast of spiritual journalism!
In short, a great, great story, sad, yet redemptive, wonderfully told

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Summary: A fascinating road!
Review: I have never heard about this author and I received his book around Christmas time;
I couldn't put it down!
This is brilliant, like a kaleidoscopic portrayal of a still mysterious page of the World's history (did Guadalupe really appear? Was the apparition a man-made hoax?No one can be sure)It is also a very subtle analysis of the darker side of catholicism ("Corporate Catholicism", as Hanut writes)I loved the author's humor and his boundless curiosity and compassion; I will always re-read "The Road to Guadalupe" with great joy.

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Summary: Honest and to the point!
Review: I loved this book and loved the fact that the author is not offering any 'magic fairy dust'- unlike so many other pilgrimage books in which they all get enlightened in the first chapter; his struggles, need to believe and disappointments are so human and honest; For an introduction to the real world of pilgrimage, look at "The Road to Guadalupe".

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Summary: An Amazing Adventure
Review: I loved this book...I do not have time to read much but I did not put this book down until I devoured it! Mr. Hanut is so talented, his writing absolutely poetic. Eryk really captured that other side of the devotion of Mexicans to the Virgin...what an amazing book!

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Summary: An Amazing Adventure
Review: I loved this book...I do not have time to read much but I did not put this book down until I devoured it! Mr. Hanut is so talented, his writing absolutely poetic. Eryk really captured that other side of the devotion of Mexicans to the Virgin...what an amazing book!

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Summary: Absorbing and deeply human book!
Review: I never thought of Eryk Hanut as a writer; I've admired his artwork in Andrew Harvey's books but always considered him more like "a photographer who writes" than a real writer.Mea Culpa, Maxima Culpa.This is an inspiring, shocking and deeply human book,in every way worthy of its subject; Hanut writes with a sharp intelligence, a wealth of detail and deep respect for the strange and enduring phenomenon of pilgrimage. This book combines theoretical sophistication and a vigorous and strangely original narrative style.Most important, Hanut-while being wordly and acid-tongued- approaches his subject with great compassion. A writer is born, and a great one!!