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Let Me Tell You about Quinta
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ISBN
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9780143415220
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Publisher
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Penguin
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Subject
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Literature: History & Criticism
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Binding
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Paperback
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Pages
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264
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Year
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2011
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Description
'Houses are like people, you live in them and they look beautiful; you neglect them and they wither and slump.’ When Queirozito wins the protracted litigation against relatives who had laid claim to his 200-year-old ancestral home, Quinta, he gets a new lease of life. He invites his grandson Suraj from the US to take a look at the half-slumping villa for possible repairs. When Suraj’s Russian-American wife California arrives instead, Queirozito faces yet another invasion on his beloved home and decides to fight back once again only to stumble upon some bitter, dark family secrets. In Let Me Tell You about Quinta, Savia Viegas weaves an intricate tale of the small, secluded and fading world of the elite Viegas family which, in many ways, reflects contemporary Goan society.
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Author Biography
Savia Viegas is an academic and a writer living in Carmona, South Goa. It is the intricate tapestry of their small, secluded and fading world that is a major preoccupation in her novels–Tales from the Attic and Let Me Tell You about Quinta. In many ways this microcosm reflects the larger problems of the Goan society caught in the throes of modernization. Currently, Savia devotes her time to writing, painting and managing a pre- primary school, Saxtti Kids, in the backyard of her old home. She shares her home with five dogs, a cat, a mongoose that inhabits a hole in the roof, and of course, the family.
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