Dear Vidya
I do like -- and have been waiting for just this. Translation that connects
worlds. Particularly this Goan fictional world written in Konkani. Its
English fictional counterpart in the Goan context is often disappointing,
although Goans seem to replace their native tongue with English quite
readily.
Writing fiction in English in a non English environment is a challenge, I
think, particularly when it comes to dialogue. The reverse I expect is
equally so. How, for example, does one translate the Yorkshire dialect in
Wuthering Heights into Konkani or Russian or whatever? Good translators are
heroes and heroines.
To have the book in digital form completes the circle. Thank you and
Bloomsbury India.
Jeanne


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> Hope you like the book.
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