Thank you Mr da Silva. Much appreciated.All best wishes,Selma
On Monday 23 September 2024 at 23:44:45 BST, William Robert Da Silva
<[email protected]> wrote:
I liked the review very much. So, I put it on my FB page. Thank you
very much the review.
W R Da Silva
On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 7:44 PM Tino de Sa <[email protected]> wrote:
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> A beautifully written review, Selma.
> And like every good review by a renowned writer, it makes me want to go out,
> get the book and read it for myself - and see whether my reactions to it are
> the same as, or differ from, those of the reviewer!
> I recall her amused delight when, meeting her for the first time, I told her
> that I'd read "A Daughter's Story" like it was a thriller, from cover to
> cover in a matter of two or three days. "Alban, hear this," she called out to
> her husband, "my book has been called many things, but it's the first time
> anyone has called it a thriller!"
> I was privileged to know D. Aurora fairly well, and visited her in her home
> in Aldona a few times during my all too brief annual visits to Goa. During
> one of these visits I left a copy of my manuscript of 'One for Sorrow, Two
> for Joy' for her to read. A fortnight later she e-mailed me: "There is so
> much detail, humour, pathos and a sense of both place and culture in your
> stories." I was naturally thrilled with her compliment, and immediately wrote
> back asking if I could use it as a blurb on the cover of my book, to which
> she graciously and readily agreed. It was just days before the book went into
> print, and I was adamant that the publisher modify the cover to add her
> comment to those of Wendell Rodricks and Rajdeep Sardesai.
> My regret was that she died just before I moved to Goa, and that I could not
> spend time with her as I had intended, learning from her and picking her
> brains on the vast swathe of topics that her conversation always encompassed.
> Tino de Sa
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2024 at 2:10 AM 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net
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>> https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/reviewat-home-in-two-worlds-by-maria-aurora-couto-101726920029847.html
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>> All best wishes,
>> Selma
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