THE GREATEST GAON STORIES EVER TOLD (HB)

?The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told? features some of the best short fiction to
emerge from the pens of Goans living in India and abroad over the last
century, in English and superbly translated from the Portuguese, Konkani, and
Marathi. The storytellers included range from eminent writers such as
Laxmanrao Sardessai and Vimala Devi to contemporary writers like Damodar
Mauzo, Ramnath Gajanan Gawade, Jessica Faleiro, and Derek Mascarenhas.

The collected stories cover subjects as wide, diverse, and absorbing as the
Goan people? from iron ore mining in Epit?cio Pais?s ?A Story about Mines?
and Pundalik Naik?s ?The Palm Tree? and the agrarian village lifestyle in Mahableshwar
Sail?s ?The Yoke? and
Prakash S. Parienkar?s ?The Sacrifice?, to diasporic experiences in Selma
Carvalho?s ?Bed Blocker No. 10? and Roanna Gonsalves?s ?Curry Muncher?, and
patriarchal family structures in Nayana Adarkar?s ?The Protector?. Goa
threads these stories together?its varied characters from various communities
and religions, its colourful people, its Portuguese colonial history, its
picturesque landscape, and the general aura surrounding the place.

Selected and edited by Manohar Shetty, the twenty-seven stories in this
anthology are proof that there?s more to Goa than hats and sunglasses,
printed shirts and shorts, cameras, seafood, and holidaymakers frolicking on
its beaches.