Product Description It s 1510. The Portuguese arrive in Goa armed with guns, swords and crucifixes to the agricultural village of Adolshi. As tigers prowl about, cow bones appear in wells, chariot wheels break on festival day, a sense of foreboding fills the Hindus, who have been living there peacefully. The Portuguese king has licenced Jesuits to take over, and staunch white men move about preaching the word of the Son of God. Land is seized, families break. However, Padre Simao Peres is convinced that love and not force will bring about a change of heart. With the Inquisition looming like an axe over everyone s heads, a saga of choice plays out for the people of the village. Recounting a forgotten history, Mahabaleshwar Sail s epic novel, Age of Frenzy, documents a turbulent past of religious rifts, caste hierarchies and power shifts which changed the ethos of a significant part of the western coastline of India forever. About the Author Mahabaleshwar Sail is a prolific writer in the Konkani with four short-story collections and six novels, many of which have been translated into English and other languages. Born into a family of farmers near Karwar in northern Karnataka, Sail served in the Indian Army during the Indo Pak war in 1965. After brief stints in the police force and as a forest guard, he served as a postmaster in Goa. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Katha Award in 2007. Vidya Pai began translating full-time from Konkani after she won an award at the first Katha British Council Translation Contest in 1993. She has translated five Konkani novels: Pundalik Naik s Acchev (The Upheaval); Mahabaleshwar Sail s Kali Ganga (Kali Ganga), Hawthan (The Kiln) and Aranyakand (Forest Saga); Damodar Mauzo s novel Karmelin (Karmelin); a short story collection Rumadful (Mirage and Other Stories), and Kaleidoscope, a collection of essays by Ravindra Kelekar.