The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told

The Greatest Goan Stories EverTold features some of the best short fiction to emerge from the pens of Goansliving in India and abroad over the last century in English and superblytranslated from the Portuguese Konkani and Marathi. The storytellers includedrange from eminent writers such as Laxmanrao Sardessai and Vimala Devi tocontemporary writers like Damodar Mauzo Ramnath Gajanan Gawade JessicaFaleiro and Derek Mascarenhas.The collected stories coversubjects as wide diverse and absorbing as the Goan people- from iron oremining in Epitácio Paiss A Story about Mines and Pundalik Naiks The PalmTree and the agrarian village lifestyle in Mahableshwar Sails The Yoke and PrakashS. Parienkars The Sacrifice to diasporic experiences in Selma CarvalhosBed Blocker No. 10 and Roanna Gonsalvess Curry Muncher and patriarchalfamily structures in Nayana Adarkars The Protector. Goa threads these storiestogether-its varied characters from various communities and religions itscolourful people its Portuguese colonial history its picturesque landscape and the general aura surrounding the place.Selected and edited by ManoharShetty the twenty-seven stories in this anthology are proof that theres moreto Goa than hats and sunglasses printed shirts and shorts cameras seafood and holidaymakers frolicking on its beaches.