Darshan Elena's review
The Konkans by Tony D'Souza
Darshan Elena's review
rating:
recommended for: all folks interested in family, memory, and travel
status: Read in September, 2008
rating:
recommended for: all folks interested in family, memory, and travel
status: Read in September, 2008
This is an amazing novel that reveals the complexities of history through the prism of child's memory of the stories he has been told. Yes, that sentence is as complicated as the novel's premise. However, the novel's reading is delightful and accessible. It is also transformative. I have always longed to visit Goa given my appreciation of colonial architecture and respect for hybrid indigenous cultures that have survived such brutality. Reading this book forced me to consider the terrain upon which my travel lust has hinged - architectural appreciation - reminding me of the form and toll of colonial violence. I plan to visit Goa; I will now do so with a more sophisticated lens on its history and that of its Portuguese colonizers.
