The Gift of the Holy Cross

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ISBN-10:

0948833157

ISBN-13:

9780948833151

Author(s): Leitão, Lino
Released: Mar 01, 2000
Format: Paperback, 260 pages
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Description:

Leitao's novel brings alive the vanished world of colonial Goa, a hybrid creation of Portuguese Catholicism and the Hindu caste system. From its beginnings in village rivalries, fought out by the bulls of neighbouring Cavelossim and Carmona, the sleeping dragon of Goan nationalism awakes. But when the Goan people rise up against their Portuguese masters, their victory is hollow. The fruits of their struggle are plucked by the new commercial elite and their distinctive culture is swamped as Goa is annexed by India.
Focusing on the tragic figure of Mario Jaques, a village leader who wants to preserve the best of the old world in the new but who is isolated by his own confusions and swept away by social forces beyond his control, Leitao writes passionately of a popular movement betrayed.


























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