"Eunice de Souza, better known for her poetry and lucid criticism, has finally written a novel. She bagan publishing her poetry relatively late in life, and it should not surprise ardent followers of her literary work that her first novel should have come after she ended her teaching career," so writes Santan Rodrigues.
There's a review of 'Dangerlok in Mumbai' in a (by now dated) December 23, 2001 issue of the Free Press Journal. Writes Rodrigues:"The book is based in middle-class Mumbai, and a 'Bambiya' reader will identify with the many familiar scenes and situations and vivid characters depicted. The excitement of the environment even in the uneventful arrival of a new bus route, the 'Bambiya' Hindi, the graphic characterization of people who rise above becoming stereotypes are the strength of the novel." Rodrigues is a Mumbai-based poet who took to PR because poetry can't bring in a decent living in India. To me, is about the only known face one meets while wandering aimlessly around the steet-booksales around Mumbai's Churchgate-Fountain area during my occasional visits there. Eunice de Souza, on the other hand, is someone who's works one should have been more familiar with, specially had I to take a little bit more seriously the English Litt. syllabi one went in for, more with the intention of having some paper qualifications to stay in journalism! Interesting perhaps for some of us on GoaNet: "The novel certres around Rina Ferreira, a middle-aged spinster and a teacher of English literature in a city college. Among the many attributes assigned to the heroine of the novel is of being a poet and the swings in mood may have been sparked by this vocation. "The story is written in the form of letters to a friend, David a former lover who lives in America. He is always referring to his new girl friend but has a keen interest in the life and world of Rina Ferreira. Another friend, Megan, who also lives abroad in the West, is used as a sounding board for Rina's moods and situations. But in between is the exciting narrative that realistically and with just that shade of humour sums up life in the city as no other writer has done before with the possible exception of Kiran Nagarkar..." BOOK DETAILS: Dangerlok. Eunice de Souza. Penguin Books. Rs 150. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
