The Konkans - Hardcover

D'Souza, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151015198 ISBN 13: 9780151015191

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 2008

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Book by DSouza Tony

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Francisco D'Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son—all the way back to the beginning of a long line of proud Konkans. Known as the "Jews of India," the Konkans kneeled before the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama's sword and before Saint Francis Xavier’s cross, abandoned their Hindu traditions, and became Catholics. In 1973 Francisco's Konkan father, Lawrence, and American mother, Denise, move to Chicago, where Francisco is born. His father, who does his best to assimilate into American culture, drinks a lot and speaks little. But his mother, who served in the Peace Corps in India, and his uncle Sam (aka Samuel Erasmus D'Sai) are passionate raconteurs who do their best to preserve the family's Konkan heritage. Friends, allies, and eventually lovers, Sam and Denise feed Francisco’s imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history.

Filled with romance, comedy, and masterful storytelling, The Konkans leaves us surprised by what secrets history may hold for us if only we wonder enough to look.

 

Biografía del autor:

TONY D’SOUZA is the author of the novel Whiteman, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for First Fiction and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and his fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Playboy, Tin House, the Literary Review, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and elsewhere. He considers Sarasota, Florida, his home base.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0151015198
• ISBN 13: 9780151015191
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308