I encountered Maria Aurora Couto through her two earlier works. In Goa: A Daughter's Story, I marvelled at the grandeur of the life she described in the palatial houses of Salcette, with their colonial connections through the Portuguese language, music, food, and lifestyle. Filomena’s Journeys: A Portrait of a Marriage, a Family, and a Culture, was heartbreaking. She writes of her mother’s story with honesty, the unravelling of a once-grand Goan family, their love of music, their Indo-Portuguese lifestyle, and their eventual decline brought on by a lack of practical skills and alcohol addiction. Her mother, Filomena was strong, stoic, and suffered in silence. Couto found this book so difficult to write that she refers to herself in the third person.
Read full text here:Review: At Home in Two Worlds — Joao-Roque Literary Journal est. 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | Review: At Home in Two Worlds — Joao-Roque Literary Journal est. 2017 Review by Michelle M. Bambawale I encountered Maria Aurora Couto through her two earlier works. In Goa: A Daug... | | | All best,Selma Carvalho -- *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Goa Book Club" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/1931724658.13602.1728074597039%40mail.yahoo.com.
