Manohar Shetty

Almost all of these stories are slice-of-life fragments. Some are extracts from novels and a very few are variations on trickster stories. Overwhelmingly claustrophilia/claustrophobic at once, Goan life and Goans are not made attractive through theses small windows, and in particular those Catholic Goans in administrative positions in Africa are unfavorably lit. If you have read Chinese or Indian stories featuring nasty mother-in-laws, you know the tone of most of the stories in this collection.