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Sahitya Akademi-awardee Damodar Mauzo is one of the most prominent, prolific and feted figures in contemporary Konkani literature. His writing spans an enormous range, straddling both urban and rural geographies, and runs the gamut of human emotion—the paralyzing helplessness of the small farmer in the face of implacable nature; the eternal ebbs and flows of the man-woman relationship; and the many humiliations, small and large, of raising a differently abled child.

In the title story, an ineffectual husband finally reaches his boiling point; ‘Coinsanv’s Cattle’ is a heart-breaking depiction of how a farmer couple must make the impossible choice—send their beloved animals to slaughter or face starvation; and, in the quietly humorous ‘A Writer’s Tale’, a senior author becomes the unwitting subject of a woman’s fiction. Compiled with care, and smoothly, felicitously translated by Xavier Cota, Teresa’s Man and Other Stories from Goa brings to readers tales which are as compellingly local in their flavour as they are universal in the ideas and emotions they evoke. This volume is a must-read.
 4aKonkani fiction 4aShort stories, Konkani 4aGoa (India)xFiction 4aGoa (India)xSocial life and customsxFiction 4aGoa (India)xSocial conditionsxFiction 4aRural conditionsxIndiaxFiction 4aPovertyxIndiaxFiction 4aInterpersonal relationsxFiction 4aWomenxSocial conditionsxIndiaxFiction 4aPeople with disabilitiesxIndiaxFiction  aCota, Xavier