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The Wait and Other Stories

The Wait and Other Stories

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Author: Damodar Mauzo

9780670095810 | HB | pp. 256 | 2022 | Penguin Random House

The Wait and Other Stories by Damodar Mauzo is a fascinating collection of stories mostly set in Goa presenting the state’s diverse, cosmopolitan reality.

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9780670095810 | Hardback | 256 | 2022 | Penguin Random House

The Wait and Other Stories by Damodar Mauzo is a fascinating collection of stories mostly set in Goa presenting the state's diverse, cosmopolitan reality.

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A cab driver, who assumes the identity of whoever his clients want him to be, finds himself in a tricky situation with a passenger. A late-night call leads a doctor down a path of lust and desire, but with unexpected results. A writer acquaints himself with a thief who had broken into his house. A migrant worker falls in love but wonders how he can present himself as a suitor. A young man, having lost the love of his life, takes it upon himself to resolve another couple’s dilemmas.

Konkani writer Damodar Mauzo’s sometimes bizarre, sometimes tender stories, set largely in
Goa, create a world far removed from the sun and sand and the holiday resorts. Here you find villagers facing moral choices, children waking up to the realities of adult lives, men who dwell on remorse, women who live a life of regret and communities whose bonds are growing tenuous in an age of religious polarization. Probing the deepest corners of the human psyche with tongue-in-cheek humour, Mauzo’s stories reveal the many threads that connect us to others and the ease with which they can be broken. Written in simple prose and yet layered in nuances, The Wait is a collection that brings to the anglophone world one of the doyens of Konkani literature.

Author:

Damodar Mauzo
ISBN:

9780670095810
Binding:

Hardback
Pages:

256
Year of Publication:

2022
Publisher:

Penguin Random House
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author is a short story writer, novelist, critic and scriptwriter who lives in Goa and writes in Konkani. He received India's highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award, in 2022. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983, for his novel Karmelin, and the Vimala V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar in 2011, for his novel Tsunami Simon. His collection of short stories, Teresa's Man and Other Stories from Goa, was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2015. He has served as a member of the executive board, General Council, Sahitya Akademi, as well as a member of the Sahitya Akademi's Finance Committee.

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