It was hard to leave Kambul behind despite the weight we'd lost. But my father had completed _When the Owl Cries_ in the most appropriate setting for a book that seeks to recreate hacienda life, and we shared many happy memories of our outings and leisurely hours there. REVIEWS OF THE BOOK As already mentioned, _When the Owl Cries_ was widely and enthusiastically reviewed throughout the country. The following are excerpts from some of these reviews: "_When the Owl Cries_ is a novel rich in pictorially vivid reading. As you turn the pages, you ask, What next? That is the immemorial appeal of the thriller. But what gives the story stature as a work of art is that Bartlett has been at pains to populate it with believable characters who are stirred by intensely personal concerns."--Charles Poore, in the _New York Times_ "The book charms with its expert knowledge of place and people."--Paul Engle, in the _Chicago Tribune_ "Vivid, impressive, highly pictorial. What makes it a pleasure to read are its marvelous vignettes of Mexican ways of life."--Lon Tinkle, in the _Dallas News_ "Only rarely is an American writer gifted with the perception and sensitivity required to translate into English the intensity and sense of tragedy of the Latin races."--Joe Knefler, in the _L. A. Times_ "Mr. Bartlett has given us a powerful, unusual and taunting novel, filled with characters as real as the headlines in today's papers, who move toward the inevitability of defeat like figures in a Greek tragedy."--D. Evan Gwen, in the _Oxford Mail_ "A _Gone with the Wind_ of Mexico."--_Library Journal_ "The Spirit and atmosphere of Mexico breathe from every page of Paul Bartlett's poignant novel."--Clifford Gessler, in the _Oakland Tribune_ "This is a book the reader can see in his mind--on a wide screen in technicolor with stereophonic sound. It doesn't need Hollywood but it's the kind of story that wouldn't do the movies any harm."--_Florida Times-Union_ "The interiors are magnificent: the feeling one gets of candles and bronze and rosemaries and Spanish furniture and nostalgia and hatred."--_London Times Literary Supplement_ [Illustration: author photo] "The revolution is reflected in the crumbling of the great feudal hacienda system and the beginning of democracy... a warmly human novel."--_Kansas City Times_ "A novel of exploitation and retribution."--_London Free Press_ "A capably written novel about an exciting land and an exciting era."--_Los Angeles Mirror News_ "An intense struggle heightened by personal involvement, written with understanding."--_Los Angeles Examiner_ "A beautifully atmospheric tale with a punch."--_Washington Post_ "Bartlett has pinpointed the struggle between the old order and new--between father and son."--_The Atlanta Journal_ "One of the high-ranking novels of the year."--Worchester Telegram "A dramatic, well-written symbol of transition."--_San Jose Mercury_