Dear Mr Ghosh,
I honestly “discovered your name” only few weeks ago, just by and for a lucky
casuality.
While walking in front of bookshop window, a cover photo attracted my vision,
Mandaly wood bridge, I entered into shop, read the brief story in back of
cover book, and because I have been in Burm few years ago I decided to buy the
book “The glass palace” hoping to be teletransported into Burma again with the
usage of memories.
You did even better then just teletransport me in there, I couldn’t stop to
read the book, and I “drunk” the book in a week-end of full reading
immersion.
Same happened with the next book I went to buy, this time in purpose, “The
Calcutta chromosome”.
So yesterday I went to buy all the remaining books your wrote in block, as I
am sure I’ll refind the same magical atmosphere, not forgetting the fact that
I lernt lot of things from the fact narrated in these two single books I read
till now.
Due to my poor English language I can’t avoid to be direct-speeching and
focus only to the intention of the mail itself, which is, as per mail-title
itself, a Compliments mail.
I want to write and express all my best and warmest compliment for your way of
conducting mind-reader of other countries, directly into the dust and smells
and sounds and noises and appeals of Asia. The words written by the drops of
your penn-ink, aren’t just black words on white paper, these black words draw
on paper a rainbow of colours that vividly and impressively narrate stories.
I just want to write you all my warmest and sincere compliment, for your way
of narrating, writing and describing stories.
I honestly can’t say I read your books in English, just translated into
Italian, but I believe that a translater can provide a good attracting,
interesting book only if the provided material has a good, solid, impressive,
fantasious, rich soil, and I wished to let you know you have now a a “brand
new” close fan from Italy.
Please be kind to forgive my poor English vocabulary, my mail would have been
much more longer if written in my native language, so at the end less boredom
for you or your personaly secretary in reading it.
Sincerely Yours.
Luana Zardinoni
(Venice – Italy)