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Arresting God In Kathmandu
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Author : Samrat Upadhyay
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-09-23
Arresting God In Kathmandu written by Samrat Upadhyay and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with Fiction categories.
From “a major new talent” come short stories set in modern Nepal, about arranged marriages, forbidden desires, and the universal yearning for human connection (Amitav Ghosh). Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, and family defines identity, these are stories of men and women caught between their own needs and the demands of their society and culture. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, with “a masterful narrative style” (Ian MacMillan), Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction. “Upadhyay brings to readers the flavor of Nepal and its culture in this impressive collection of nine short stories. Like Ha Jin’s Bridegroom, Upadhyay’s stories portray the lives of simple yet psychologically complex characters and reveal much about the universal human condition in us all. . . . Upadhyay’s stories leave the reader with much food for thought and will make a good choice for book discussion groups.” —Library Journal
Arresting God In Kathmandu Pa
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Author : Upadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Mariner Books
Release Date : 2001-08-02
Arresting God In Kathmandu Pa written by Upadhyay and has been published by Mariner Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-02 with categories.
The Guru Of Love
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Author : Samrat Upadhyay
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2013-02-01
The Guru Of Love written by Samrat Upadhyay and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-01 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Notable Book: “A ravishingly seductive novel . . . set in contemporary Kathmandu” (Elle). Ramchandra is a math teacher earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and two children. Moonlighting as a tutor, he engages in an illicit affair with one of his tutees, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished teenager, who is also a new mother. She provides for him what his wife, who comes from a privileged background, does not: desire, mystery, and a simpler life. Just as this Nepalese city struggles with the conflicts of change, Ramchandra must also learn to accommodate both tradition and his very modern desires, in this “gripping” novel by the Whiting Award–winning author of Buddha’s Orphans (The New York Times Book Review). “Utterly absorbing . . . Upadhyay’s lucent and tender storytelling gently unveils the strange interplay between self and family, the private and the political, and most mysteriously, the erotic and the spiritual.” —Booklist “Poignant . . . The Guru of Love effectively weaves together the complicated dichotomies of man and mistress, love and lust, tradition and modernity.” —USA Today “Reads like a graceful, page-turning mixture of stirring romance and social commentary.” —Entertainment Weekly
Forget Kathmandu
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Author : Manjushree Thapa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05
Forget Kathmandu written by Manjushree Thapa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with Art categories.
Author's impression on the political conditions in Nepal post 2001 while travelling through the affected areas of political strife.
The Royal Ghosts
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Author : Samrat Upadhyay
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2006-02-09
The Royal Ghosts written by Samrat Upadhyay and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-09 with Fiction categories.
“Startlingly good” stories of Nepali society set against the backdrop of violent Maoist insurgencies (San Francisco Chronicle). From an author like “a Buddhist Chekhov,” The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society (San Francisco Chronicle). As political violence rages, these people struggle with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the complexities of arranged marriage, striving to find peace and connection, and often discovering it in unexpected places. These stories, from the Whiting Award–winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu and The Guru of Love, brilliantly examine not only Kathmandu during a time of upheaval, crisis, and cultural transformation but also the effects of the city on the individual consciousness. “Like William Trevor, Samrat Upadhyay compresses into a short story the breadth of vision and human consequence we expect from a novel, and he does so in a prose that seems as natural as breathing.” —Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe “Takes us straight into the heart of the troubled and enchanting kingdom of Nepal.” —The Washington Post “Upadhyay’s not-so-simple stories are lucid and often luminous.” —Publishers Weekly
Buddha S Orphans
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Author : Samrat Upadhyay
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2010-07-14
Buddha S Orphans written by Samrat Upadhyay and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-14 with Fiction categories.
A novel of love and political upheaval, in which “Kathmandu is as specific and heartfelt as Joyce’s Dublin” (San Francisco Chronicle). In Buddha’s Orphans, Nepal’s political upheavals of the past century serve as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege. Their love scandalizes both of their families—and the novel takes readers across the globe and through several generations. This engrossing, unconventional love story explores the ways that events of the past, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present. It is also a brilliant depiction of Nepali society from the Whiting Award–winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu. “[Upadhyay is] a Buddhist Chekhov.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Upadhyay . . . [illuminates] the shadow corners of his characters’ psyches, as well as the complex social and political realities of life in Nepal, with equal grace.” —Elle “[Upadhyay’s] characters linger. They are captured with such concise, illuminating precision that one begins to feel that they just might be real.” —The Christian Science Monitor “Absorbing . . . Beautifully told.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
The Tutor Of History
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Author : Manjushree Thapa
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2001
The Tutor Of History written by Manjushree Thapa and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Nepal categories.
The Tutor of History is an ambitious social saga, a compelling tale of idealism, love and alienation, set in contemporary Nepal caught between tradition and modernity. The events of the novel unfold against the backdrop of a campaign for parliamentary elections in the bustling roadside town of Khaireni Tar. At its heart the book is about four main characters: Giridhar Adhikari, the chairman of the People's Party's district committee, who suffers from a serious alcohol addiction and strange, violent manias; Rishi Parajuli, a lonely, under-employed bachelor and disillusioned communist who gives private tuitions in history to disinterested middle-class boys; Om Gurung, a former British Gurkha determined to bring love into every life in his hometown; and Binita Dahal, a reclusive young widow who runs a small tea shop and is careful not to demand of life more than the meagre pleasures it brings her. As the election campaign reaches its peak, the crisis in each character's life mounts, and the eventual rigging of the elections becomes a metaphor for the flawed, imperfect choices that ordinary people must make to get by in a world beyond their control. significant new voice from the Subcontinent. The first major novel in English to emerge from Nepal.
The City Son
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Author : Samrat Upadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2014
The City Son written by Samrat Upadhyay and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Fiction categories.
When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son Tarun in a nearby city, she takes the Masterji back into her grasp and expels his second family. Tarun's mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind and Tarun turns to Didi for the mothering he longs for. But as Tarun gets older, Didi's domination of the boy turns from the emotional to the physical. The damages she inflicts spiral outward, threatening to destroy Tarun's one chance at true happiness.
Cheers
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Author : Brandon Cook
language : en
Publisher: Red Lightning Books
Release Date : 2021-04-06
Cheers written by Brandon Cook and has been published by Red Lightning Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Salut! Prost! Skål! Na zdrave! Tagay! No matter what country you clink glasses in, everyone has a word for cheers. In Cheers! Around the World in 80 Toasts, Brandon Cook takes readers on a whirlwind trip through languages from Estonian to Elvish and everywhere in between. Need to know how to toast in Tagalog? Say "bottoms up" in Basque? "Down the hatch" in Hungarian? Cook teaches readers how to toast in 80 languages and includes drinking traditions, historical facts, and strange linguistic phenomena for each. Sweden, for instance, has a drinking song that taunts an uppity garden gnome, while Turkey brandishes words like Avrupalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınızcasına. And the most valuable liquor brand in the world isn't Johnny Walker or Hennessey, but Maotai—President Nixon's liquor of choice when he visited China. Whether you're traveling the globe or the beer aisle, Cheers! will show you there's a world of fun waiting for you. So raise a glass and begin exploring! The audio book is narrated by Nicholas Smith. Produced by Speechki in 2021.
Between Queens And The Cities
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Author : Niranjan Kunwar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Between Queens And The Cities written by Niranjan Kunwar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Gay men categories.
"Between Queens and the cities is the riveting tale of a 19-year-old Nepali gay man and his long journey from Kathmandu to New York and back. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Nepal, the author reveals, with elan and ease, queer spaces where friendships are fostered outside the normalcy accorded to family and marriage. In the process, he introduces many fellow travellers of the LGBTIQ community. with rare courage and outrageous emothional honesty, the author lays bare the ceaseless conflict of the mind and heart in exporing sexuality. He also compels the reader to interrogate dominant notions regarding love and longing and in doing so, reveals dynamic relationships that are not confined to the rrealm of queer intimacy alone. This memoir on the shaping of queer identity in the South Asian context bristles with deeper questions regarding belonging."--- page 4 of cover