Golden Goa

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Recounting the authors travels in India by paralleling them with those of 16th-century Portuguese soldier and poet Luis de Camoensauthor of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiadsthis magical, exquisite narrative, reminiscent journeys to the island of Diu, won by the Portuguese from the navy of Suleiman the Magnificent. Visiting Goa, the author meets the Rodrigues family, people who inhabit a two-hundred-year-old house full of history and rats. Throughout his travels, he encounters those who wish the Portuguese would come backand those who are very glad they're gone.

Author Bio

GRANT BUDAYs novel Under Glass was short-listed for the 1994 B.C. Book Prizes. His collection of stories Monday Night Man was short-listed for the 1996 City of Vancouver Book Award. One of those stories won the sub-TERRAIN Magazine Penny Dreadful Short Story Contest, and two others from the same volume were included in the anthology Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada (McClelland & Stewart, 1998). His most recent novel is White Lung (Anvil Press, 1999), a selection of which won the Fiction Category of the 1997 Western Magazine Awards. White Lung has also been nominated for the B.C. Book Prizes. Buday is currently completing a screen adaptation of a story from Monday Night Man for Anagram Productions in Vancouver.