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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Harcourt
Price: $25.00
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TONY D'SOUZA reads from The Konkans
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning fiction writer TONY D'SOUZA to read from his new novel The Konkans. Francisco D’Sai is a firstborn son of a firstborn son—all the way back to the beginning of a long line of proud Konkans. Known as the Jews of India, the Konkans kneeled before the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama’s sword and before Saint Francis Xavier’s cross, abandoned their Hindu traditions, and became Catholics. In 1973 Francisco’s Konkan father, Lawrence, and American mother, Denise, move to Chicago, where Francisco is born. His father, who does his best to assimilate into American culture, drinks a lot and speaks little. But his mother, who served in the Peace Corps in India, and his uncle Sam are passionate raconteurs who do their best to preserve the family’s Konkan heritage. Friends, allies, and eventually lovers, Sam and Denise feed Francisco’s imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history.
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Tuesday, February 26th |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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TONY D’SOUZA is the author of the novel Whiteman, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for First Fiction and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and his fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Playboy, Tin House, the Literary Review, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and elsewhere. He considers Sarasota, Florida, his home base.
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