Child of Carol – Joyce Veerasamy’s biography – will be released at the end of the month. The book is 70 pages long and tells mainly about the artist’s childhood. The book will be on sale at Rs 350.
He was born in September 1959, four months before the cyclone Carol in February 1960. It is the violent passage of this cyclone on our island that inspired the title of Joyce’s biography.
In this book, written with the support of Eddy Caramedon, the artist recounts his departure from Camp Diable to the town of Curepipe. This uprooting deeply marked the childhood of the little boy he was once: “I regret to this day having left my native village to settle in Curepipe. Life was different there. And I tell it all in the book through my child’s eyes, in fact the whole biography unfolds through the eyes of the boy I was at the time.”
Then, Joyce also devotes two respective chapters to her parents, “These two people shaped my life. I remember my father leaving the house at 4 a.m. to support his family, my mother’s courage. I had to pay tribute to them.”
All in poetry the author also wanted to make the book digestible: “The writing is light and I wanted it to be as poetic as possible. However the book is easy to read. It will be a beautiful trace for posterity.”
