TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mauzo, Damodar 
AU  - Cota, Xavier 
TI  - Teresa's man and other stories from Goa / 
SN  - 9788129134660
U1  - 891.4693  
PY  - 2014///.
CY  - New Delhi : 
PB  - Rupa Publication, 
KW  - Konkani fiction
KW  - Short stories, Konkani
KW  - Goa (India)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - India
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Women
KW  - People with disabilities
N2  - 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

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