The Konkans - Softcover

D'Souza, Tony

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ISBN 10: 1846271304 ISBN 13: 9781846271304

Publisher: Portobello Books, 2008

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Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2008, 978-0-15-101519-1/0-15-101519-8

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"There is a kind of freshness and bubbling wonder in this book, the sense of a writer genuinely searching for answers." -- The Washington Post 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, the “Jews of India,” who abandoned their Hindu traditions, knelt before Vasco da Gama’s sword and Saint Francis Xavier’s cross, and became Catholics. In Chicago circa 1973, Francisco’s Konkan father, Lawrence, does his best to assimilate into American culture. But Francisco’s American, Peace Corps–veteran mother, Denise, and his uncle Sam are passionate raconteurs set on preserving the family’s Konkan heritage, feeding Francisco’s imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history. Like his acclaimed debut Whiteman, Tony D’Souza’s The Konkans is an absorbing portrait of assimilation filled with romance, comedy, masterly storytelling, and the truth of family in any country. "D'Souza's compelling tale of one extended family's trials and triumphs in a foreign land is an astute glimpse of the challenges, dangers, and rewards of assimilation." -- The Boston Globe "[F]unny and romantic and heartbreaking..." -- St. Petersburg Times TONY D’SOUZA is the author of Whiteman, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize. A Guggenheim fellow, his fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Tin House, the Literary Review, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and elsewhere. He lives in Sarasota, Florida.

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