Suneeta Peres da Costa

A coming-of-age story set in Angola in the period leading up to the colony's independence, Saudade focuses on a Goan immigrant family caught between complicity in Portuguese rule, and their dependence on the Angolans who are their servants. The title (saudade means 'melancholy' in Portuguese) speaks to the longing for homeland that haunts its characters, and especially the young girl...

A debut poetry collection by the acclaimed writer Suneeta Peres da Costa, author of the Prime Minister's Literary Award-shortlisted novel Saudade. In the title poem of Suneeta Peres da Costa's debut poetry collection, The Prodigal, the protagonist wakes to an imprint of tulsi beads marking her cheek where she slept, 'writing their faint, inscrutable calligraphy'. The poem, recalling Elizabeth Bishop,...