Bombay Balchão (Paperback)

Original price was: ₹399.00.Current price is: ₹360.00.

Out of stock

ISBN 9789395073202|Paperback|216 pages|2022|Westland Books

Bombay Balchão by Jane Borges, serves up a delectable version of Bombay in her maiden novel.

Delivery: We are a small, independent bookstore and shipping times may be slightly longer than usual. Please allow 2-4 business days for your order to be processed and shipped. We appreciate your patience. We will notify you by email as soon as your order ships.

Print on demand publications require additional preparation. See the shipping section below for details.

ISBN 9789395073202|Paperback|216 pages|2022|Westland Books

Bombay Balchão by Jane Borges, serves up a delectable version of Bombay in her maiden novel.

Delivery: We are a small, independent bookstore and shipping times may be slightly longer than usual. Please allow 2-4 business days for your order to be processed and shipped. We appreciate your patience. We will notify you by email as soon as your order ships.

Print on demand publications require additional preparation. See the shipping section below for details.

Bombay Balchão, journalist Jane Borges’ debut work of fiction, is a walk through the lives of the inhabitants of Cavel, a small Catholic community in South Mumbai. While it is through protagonist Michael Coutino that the author chooses to drive her narrative, there are several others with their own quirks that make them just as or perhaps even more memorable.

The author has woven in true incidents from the city’s past, the characters having developed from her own identity as someone who grew up in a Catholic community in the city. The narrative swings between several years of the characters’ lives as they evolve, or in some cases, simply fail to grow up at all.

Bombay Balchão is also a helpful guide to understanding the cultural roots of the Goan, Mangalorean and East Indian communities in Mumbai without generalising to broadly term all Catholic English speaking Indians as Goans. Borges succeeds in bringing to life characters with dialects that are distinct to their communities, often a mishmash of English, Konkani and Hindi. In that sense, Bombay Balchao is in complete contrast to Mafia Queens of Mumbai, the non-fiction novel Borges co-wrote with Hussain Zaidi based on true crime stories of women from Mumbai’s underbelly.

Excerpted from the review by Sajini Sahadevan

Author:

Jane Borges

ISBN:

9789395073202

Binding:

Paperback

Year of Publication:

2022

Pages:

216

Publisher:

Westland Books

Edition:

Reissue

Condition:

New

Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

Jane Borges is a Mumbai-based journalist. She currently writes on books, heritage and urban planning for Sunday mid-day, the weekend edition of mid-day newspaper. In 2011, she co-authored Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands with S. Hussain Zaidi, which was shortlisted for The Economist Crossword Book award. Her fiction has been featured in the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology and The Hindu BusinessLine's BL Ink magazine.

Shipping

This book will be shipped in 2-4 working days’ time. The time taken for you to receive the book after it is shipped will depend upon the mode you choose, while completing your purchase. The rates applicable for each mode are different.

You will be informed after the order is shipped.

Shipping costs depend on the mode chosen, the weight of the item, and the distance it will travel to reach its destination. Shipping costs will be charged depending on the weight of the entire purchase (if more than one book is purchased). The same shipping mode will apply to all products in such a case.

You may also like…

Join Waitlist We will inform you when the product arrives in stock. Please leave your valid email address below.