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From Cork to Calcutta: My Mother's Story Paperback – August 15, 2017

by Milty Bose (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass—a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thinks she has her life completely mapped out. Here in Ireland she will live an enchanted life with the perfect Irish husband, devoting herself to her family and to her livestock.

But Imelda soon finds that life doesn’t always go according to plan. Everything is turned upside-down when Imelda moves to England and happens to meet a dashing, rakish Bengali man named Shu Bose. Shu, whose knowledge of Ireland stops at James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, is captivated by Imelda’s natural beauty and vivacious charm, and the two quickly embark on a whirlwind romance. At the tender age of eighteen, in the spring of 1932, Imelda boards a ship bound for Calcutta—and a very different life to the one she had always imagined.

From Cork to Calcutta by Milty Bose transports readers back to pre-Independence India, to London between the wars, and to the genteel life of bhadralok Bengali high society. It’s the intimate and true story of Bose’s parents and their unconventional love-story that crosses class, nationality, and cultural boundaries.
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    320 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Zubaan Books
  4. Publication date
    August 15, 2017
  5. Dimensions
    5 x 1 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9384757632
  7. ISBN-13
    978-9384757632
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zubaan Books (August 15, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9384757632
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9384757632
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Nalini Karamchandani
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2018
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Awesome story beautifully written. Great wit a must read loved it
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Lauren Alderfer
5.0 out of 5 stars Top pick for multi-generational Indian family sagas
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017
A rare treat! This gripping true story gives a first-hand glimpse of elite Bengal society pre- and post-Independence. It also spans life in the UK - from rural Irish village life to posh privileged lifestyles of the most educated Indians studying in England during the British Raj. Timely issues of discrimination, class, religion, and family life are vividly relived and described with remarkable attention to history and cultural details. Written with grace and humor in a fluid easy-to-read narrative style, this book reads like The Great Gatsby of Kolkata! Yet, above all, it is a love story and the triumph of survival in the face of so many odds. Milty Bose is a fresh new Indian voice whose own story is a gift to us all. Can’t wait for her next book!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A phenomenal first book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2020
A brilliant true story of Milty Bose’s Irish Mother from Cork County and elite Bengali Father from Calcutta.

Witty and poignant, it’s a tale of trust, tragedy and triumph.
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Lily Pool
5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary love story
Reviewed in India on January 6, 2023
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A lively account of an Irish woman who follows her heart and crosses the oceans to marry an Indian man, transcending cultural boundaries. The early chapters in the book, that alternate between Cork and Calcutta, are particularly evocative, vividly portraying the differences in the family background of the two protagonists. While the narrative essentially follows the life trajectory of Imelda/Joan, the context of the British Raj and an upper-class Bengali household is pervasive and highly nuanced. That's the brilliance of this book: the intimate details shared by the author, the various anecdotes that would be considered family lore, offer several insights into family and kinship through a union that came about unambiguously because Britain ruled India during a particular era.
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