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Filomena's Journeys BOOK

Filomena's Journeys BOOK

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 Maria Aurora Couto was born in Goa and studied in Dharwar and New Delhi (where she later taught English  literature at  Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University). She is the author of the widely acclaimed Goa: A  Daughter's Story and Graham  Greene: On the Frontier and has translated, from Portuguese, A.B. Braganza  Pereira's Ethnography of Goa, Daman and  Diu. In 2010 the Government of India honoured her With the Padma  Shri for her contributions in literature and  education.Filomena's Journeys is a daughter's moving tribute to the  mother who held her world and that of her six
 siblings, together through Long years of insecurity and hardship. It is also an often heart-breaking attempt to  come to  terms with the painful memories of her father. In 1935, Filomena Borges, aged twenty-six, married for  love and moved  from her grandmother's village, Raia, where she had arrived as an orphaned child, to one of  Goa's mostprominent and  fashionable towns of the time, Margão. This move, from rural peace and simplicity to  urban buzz and formality, from a  modest landowning family to oneof formidable eminence, was to transform her  life, but in ways she could not have i  imagined. Chico, the man who had charmed her with his wit and  intelligence, turned out to be as troubled as he was  passionate. An unusually gifted musician, he lacked the  discipline and conviction to rise above the limitations of great but
 vanishing privilege that was the bane of Goa's Catholic elite in the twentieth century. The frustration broke Chico  and his  decline threatened to destroy his family. Until Filomena took a leap into the unknown and moved with her  young  childrento Dharwar, a town across the border, in Karnataka. Here, in unfamiliar surroundings, with no  source of income  apart from a share of the harvest from dwindling family lands back in Goa and rent from  students whom she took in as  lodgers, Filomena raised her seven children, shielding them from tragedy, and gave  them the best opportunities to  fashion secure futures for themselves. In her last years, when they were all settled,  the period of her quiet triumph, she  chose to live alone, sustained till the end by the qualities she had absorbed as a  young girl from her grandmother:  Pragmatism, Faith, Compassion, Love of family and a strong connection with  the land and Goa's ancient traditions. A  compelling family memoir, Filomena's Journeys is also a revealing  examination of Goan society and culture and like all  enduring stories, this testament to resilience and hope makes  the particular universal.

 
 About the author:  Maria Aurora Couto
 Maria Aurora Couto was born in Goa and studied in Dharwar and New Delhi (where she later taught English  literature at  Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University). She is the author of the widely acclaimed Goa: A  Daughter's Story and Graham  Greene: On the Frontier and has translated, from Portuguese, A.B. Braganza  Pereira's Ethnography of Goa, Daman and  Diu. In 2010 the Government of India honoured her With the Padma  Shri for her contributions in literature and education.

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Author:  Maria Aurora Couto
Publisher:   Aleph Book Company
Published:  01-Nov-13
ISBN:   978-9382277040
Binding:  Hardback
Number Of Pages: 314 pages
Dimensions (cm):  22.4 x 14.8 x 3 cm
Language:  English 

   

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