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A captivating novel set in Goa. Three men and a woman return to Goa, then a Portuguese colony in India, in early 1930s, bringing change to the village of Tivolem even as the village itself impacts upon their lives. In Tivolem the four face a blend of Western and Christian values with traditional Indian mores. Although local papers and static-filled BBC broadcasts bring news of the outside world, only the intellectuals seem touched by threats of war in Europe and ...
An elegantly styled and evocative collection bound together by the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself. The twelve stories in this volume transport a reader back and forth from the villages and towns of India's west coast to life in the concrete canyons of New York. But whether a story is set on our own shores or in the Indian Diaspora in the west, the heroes and heroines are flesh-and-blood characters such as we meet in our daily lives-the odds ...