The Goa Book Club will meet on Friday (Feb 10, 2012, at 5 pm, usual venue -- Broadway Book Centre, Panjim). Author of the recently-published novel *Just Matata*, Braz Menezes, will be there to answer questions and discuss his work.
Braz Menezes, based in Canada, has set his first novel (part of a trilogy) in Goa and Kenya. It's called *Just Matata: Sin, Saints and Settlers*. Matata is Swahili for "trouble", as Chico discovers in 1928, after jumping ship on a journey from India to Africa. Says the book: "With some skills and much sweat, he (Chico) navigates the channels open to him under the segregated colonial structure of Kenya, while doing all to keep his heritage alive, and dreaming only of retirement to his beloved Goa. Enter son Lando, two decades later, and all plans are on hold." The function is open to the public, says a press note from the Goa Book Club. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/6845695359/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/6845695367/sizes/z/in/photostream/ -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 [email protected] Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
