Sudeep’s latest book captivates all

Spicezee Bureau New Delhi, Sept 18: Sudeep Chakravarti’s latest novel ‘Once Upon a Time in Aparanta’, is atimely and captivating novel set in contemporary Goa. Published by Penguin India, the novel captures the charm of present-day Goa, with all its charm and follies. Goa is Aparanta of old – the Land at the Horizon. The tale of Dino Dantas, protestor and self appointed guardian of Aparanta, and his innkeeper cousin Antonio, begins here, in the sleepy village of Soccoro Do Munda by the sea, where time holds little meaning and the haze of nostalgia is a s binding a force as faith in the benevolence of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, ‘Perpet’ to familiars. For some time now, the world and some of Aparanta’s own have been engaged in a feeding frenzy on the natural treasures of this land of plenty. Chief among the poison mongers is Winston Almeida, supreme thug, land shark and political aspirant, who will stop at nothing to appropriate all that this creaky, corrupt paradise has to offer. Sudeep Chakravarti is the author of Tin Fish, a critically acclaimed novel published by Penguin in 2005, and this is his second novel. A columnist, media consultant and analyst, Chakravarti has earlier worked major international and Indian media organizations.