Jessica Faleiro discusses "when god died" with Vatsala Mendonca

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Selma Carvalho

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Oct 9, 2024, 9:31:18 PM10/9/24

to The Third Thursday Goa Book Club

Vatsala Mendonca is an impressive historical fiction writer who sets her novels in controversial time-periods such as the Inquisition and Goa's slave trading past.

Here in conversation with author Jessica Faleiro, Vatsala discusses her latest novel, "when god died," a title she explains as a 'metaphor for the loss of a universal moral truth.'

Nothing is off the table in this no-holds barred interview which touches on Goa's inglorious past, its patriarchy and the women caught in the crossfire.

when god died — Joao-Roque Literary Journal est. 2017

By Jessica Faleiro Your first book Shadow of the Palm Tree (2019) brought to light the presence of the slave ...

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