{"product_id":"2940152058222","title":"The Last Catholic Colony: An Indian Catholic Childhood: Fiction and Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its churches, convents, seminaries, and Jesuit schools, Mangalore in South India, felt like a Catholic colony, to the author, who spent much of his childhood in churches, convents, and Jesuit boarding schools. In this collection of fiction and essays, the author gives an impression of life in Mangalore, then and now, when Catholicism is diminished but far from dead. The fiction includes overheard conversations among Mangalorean bluebloods (no relation of the Bloods and the Crips) and a Bishop complaining about his impatient and disrespectful sheep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the author of \"The Revised Kama Sutra: A Novel.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Crasta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110385434864,"sku":"2940152058222","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152058222_p0.jpg?v=1764018117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152058222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}