A NEW ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION

The Greatest Goan Stories Ever Told features some of the best short fiction to emerge from the pens of Goans over the past 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, Jessica Faleiro and Derek Mascarenhas. The stories cover subjects as diverse as the Goan people — from iron-ore mining in Epitácio Pais’s A Story about Mines and village life in Mahableshwar Sail’s The Yoke to diasporic experiences in Roanna Gonsalves’s Curry Muncher. Selected and edited by Manohar Shetty, the 27 stories in this anthology are proof that there’s more to Goa than sunglasses, seafood and holidaymakers frolicking on a beach.

Manohar Shetty 304pp, ~799, Aleph