It is 3.30 early morning and I have just finished reading a pre-published copy of the book. Spell bound, is what I usually get, when reading a human interest story told in readable style. Well edited except for a few typos, it's a task deftly accomplished.
An excellent compilation of real stories from real people - the Goans in Burma. Although told in a dry, unemotional style that runs throughout all chapters, perhaps it is that dispassionate tone in which it is told that makes the individual recollections all the more poignant. I can't help feeling there was an opportunity lost here. Each of the chapters recount basically the same story from different perspectives. All of the tellers are from the Saligao-Olaulim area and their tales are therfore necessarily intertwined, but they do overlap and duplicate more than they needed to. Too late now but I was thinking - what if there was one resultant story, taken chronologically from the various threads, facts and recollections and woven into one contiguous beautiful seamless garment of a story of the Goan Burma survivors. Stuff that the world outside of Goans could easily read. Alongside Rohinton Mistry and M G Vassanji. Despite this, a book I would recommend to Goanetters. I will order a few to give away. One defintely to Melba Remedios a family friend in Toronto, a Burma survivor whose elder sister has written one of the many chapters of this piece of Goan diaspora history. Good job Yvonne Vaz Ezdani and birthday boy FN. Roland 416-453-3371 On Dec 28, 2007 5:16 PM, Goanet Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > REMEMBERING BURMA: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SONG > > By Yvonne Vaz Ezdani > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------- > This is an extract from the book 'Songs > Of The Survivors'. Penned by its > editor Yvonne Vaz Ezdani, it is an > epilogue to the 289-page text, being > released by Goa Commissioner for NRI > Affairs Eduardo Faleiro at the Xavier > Centre for Historical Research in Alto > Porvorim on Dec 29, 2007 at 4:30 pm. It > will be followed by a discussion > 'Visioning Migration'. Details below. > --------------------------------------- > >
