A reading from the book by broadcaster Dan Driscoll

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=FR9ENQ5P

(At the beginning of the video)

Ben Antao - Author of Blood & Nemesis

I also liked your Diaspora book, well-researched and written with affection for the Goan condition of living in exile.

 

Dr. Teresa Albuquerque - author of Goans of Kenya

Your book is so good.

Dale Luis Menezes -review in Gomantak

By placing the seemingly insignificant history (of a Goan) against the history of a region, Selma might have very well ushered in a change in analyzing Goan history and the way we perceive it. This book tells us the stories of those men and women who were nearly forgotten by everyone, including history. The focal-point is the humble Goan who comes from an equally humble village....Selma has a rare gift of the sensitivity of a writer as well as the spirit-of-inquiry of a historian. No one has ever portrayed the pathos of the expats with such haunting and heart-wrenching detail.

Read the whole review:

http://www.targetgoa.com/newsd-Into-the-Diaspora-Wilderness-a-thriller-history-of-Goan-migration-1204

Author - Oscar Monteiro - Canada

The book is an awesome sight of Goans small “exodus”.  It blends travel literature with the adventures of the emigrants, which captures the broad spectrum of their fortunes or misfortunes, their tribulations, their sadness and sufferings, their anguishes, their melancholic adaptations and longings (saudades)..

 “Into the Diaspora Wilderness” recounts the experience of flights of Goan people into the unknown territories to which the author Selma de Carvalho calls wilderness. Indeed it is. The Goans’ stories are emotional accounts of Goans to crank away in unknown lands and seas, lead us to think about the adventures of Odysseus and Vasco de Gama, among others...With her words, Selma made me travel to the time I was a child and boy, when I accompanied my mother and brothers to meet my father who, in the late forties shipped to Mozambique, a world unknown to us.

It’s wonderful to know that Selma de Carvalho is doing such a great work of keeping the Goan people’s memories alive....as a great Portuguese Epic Poet, Luis de Camões, had written, to “liberate small great feats from the law of death” which is to say to keep them alive as opposed to be forgotten...Selma’s book and work are commendable. Thank you Selma!

 Author of “Nas Asas da Palavra” and founder of the “Portuguese Language Writers’ Association of Canada”

http://www.angelfire.com/pop2/portuguese/reviews.html

http://gremioliterario.ca/