02427nam a22003017a 4500 20260906181810.0 260906b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788129134660 eng 891.4693 T14 MAU Mauzo, Damodar 29037 Teresa's man and other stories from Goa / Damodar Mauzo ; translated by Xavier Cota New Delhi : Rupa Publication, 2014. 200p. Peter wheels his bicycle out. Mounting it, he puts one foot on the pedal, the other on the threshold, and waits for Teresa. This was how he used to wait for her at the station two years ago. He used to be in love with her then… 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. Konkani fiction 29033 Short stories, Konkani 29032 Goa (India) Fiction 29034 Goa (India) Social life and customs Fiction 29035 Goa (India) Social conditions Fiction 29036 Rural conditions India Fiction 29039 Poverty India Fiction 29040 Interpersonal relations Fiction 26127 Women Social conditions India Fiction 29041 People with disabilities India Fiction 29042 Cota, Xavier 29038 BK 39286 39286 0 0 0 0 CLIB CLIB FIC 2026-09-06 Techniz books International New Delhi 250.00 1 891.4693 T14 MAU 23141 2026-09-28 2026-09-14 11:41:42 2026-09-14 2026-09-06 BK