Vasco da Gama & the Priest

Thampy Antony Thekkek's 12 short stories in this book span village city and country animal and human real and surreal political and sexual peculiar and twisted. The author's freewheeling imagination explores lust for life and victory mysteries of female psychology the feelings of metro life die-hard habits and angst and frustration of expatriates who forfeited their roots. There are many hautingly familiar characters in the stories they do not hurt anybody yet taunt many. He gives a dressing down to the society in a witty way. A new dimension to the reading experience.