Era uma Vez em Goa
“Once Upon a Time in Goa” (title translated by AI)
Paulo Varela Gomes (born 1952)
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It is 1963, and India has held Goa, Daman and Diu for two years, though its grip is still uncertain: Portuguese lingers in the streets beside Konkani and English, on half-erased shop signs and in a mixed faith still marked by Christ, and the old colonial world hangs in suspension. Graham, a British subject with little money, arrives by unorthodox routes, ahead of the hippies who will soon seek mystic refuge in India. Taken again and again for a Portuguese spy, he lurches through farcical meetings and adventures before glimpsing what Goa's tangled culture might mean, crossing paths with a beach 'hotelier' at Anjuna and with his namesake Graham Greene.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 363 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India, 1963
- First published
- 2015 by Tinta-da-China
- Author's age
- 63 when first published
- ISBN
9789896712457 (original)