Arresting God In Kathmandu

Author : Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher : HMH
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547526218

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Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay Pdf

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

Author : Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher : books catalog
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Kathmandu (Nepal)
ISBN : 8171678033

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Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay Pdf

From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernisation throughout love and family. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction.About the author- Samrat Upadhyay was born and raised in Kathmandu and came to the United States at age twenty-one. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best of the Fiction Workshops. He lives with his wife and daughter near Cleveland, where he teaches at Baldwin-Wallace College.

Author : Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher : HMH
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544200333

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The Guru of Love by Samrat Upadhyay Pdf

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

Author : Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher : HMH
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547561486

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The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay Pdf

“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

Author : Manjushree Thapa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9382277005

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Forget Kathmandu by Manjushree Thapa Pdf

Author's impression on the political conditions in Nepal post 2001 while travelling through the affected areas of political strife.

Author : Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher : HMH
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547488400

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Buddha's Orphans by Samrat Upadhyay Pdf

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

Author : Manjushree Thapa
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nepal
ISBN : 0141007745

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The Tutor of History by Manjushree Thapa Pdf

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.

Author : Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616953812

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The City Son by Samrat Upadhyay Pdf

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.

Author : Brandon Cook
Publisher : Red Lightning Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781684351473

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Cheers! by Brandon Cook Pdf

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.

Author : Manjushree Thapa
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Belonging (Social psychology)
ISBN : 9780670084388

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Seasons of Flight by Manjushree Thapa Pdf

Author : Niranjan Kunwar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798697756034

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Between Queens and the Cities by Niranjan Kunwar Pdf

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 emotional honesty, the author lays bare the ceaseless conflict of the mind and heart in exploring 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 realm of queer intimacy alone. This memoir on the shaping of queer identity in the South Asian context bristles with deeper questions regarding belonging. "By showing us how he negotiated a life for himself, Kunwar helps queer Nepalis reimagine their lives anew. He also shows all of us Nepali society as we have never seen it before: young, dynamic, open, and urbane. There is hope yet for social change." -Manjushree Thapa, Author of Forget Kathmandu"Brave and beautifully written." --Samrat Upadhyay, Author of Arresting God in Kathmandu

Author : Hemanta Mishra,Hemanta R. Mishra,Jim Ottaway (Jr.)
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Human-animal relationships
ISBN : 1599214911

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Bones of the Tiger by Hemanta Mishra,Hemanta R. Mishra,Jim Ottaway (Jr.) Pdf

Tiger conservation is one of today's most pressing environmental issues. From a world population of approximately 100,000 tigers in 1900, these majestic carnivores have dwindled to less than 3,500 in the wild today, much of this due to poaching and habitat destruction. The author tells the fascinating story of one man's quest to save the man-eating tigers of Nepal. Unique in explaining the real story of atypical tiger behavior--behavior that ultimately leads to conflict with humans, sometimes resulting in death--this book also includes stunning photos by renowned Japanese photographer Mashahiro Iijima.

Author : David Hughes Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0990578402

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Jaya Nepal! by David Hughes Martin Pdf

Set against the striking backdrop of South Asia in the early years of the new millennium, Jaya Nepal! is a rollicking mini epic that takes readers into the bustling, exotic, and colorful world of urban Kathmandu. Twenty-five-year-old Berkeley grad Benjamin Creed, an idealistic and motivated young recruit, begins his odyssey in a community curiously named Pepsicola Townplanning. The newly reinstated Nepal Peace Corps program, resurrected after the country's lengthy and bloody civil war, has drawn a gauntlet of intrepid volunteers, joining him in an iconic, multiyear program. Following Benjamin to Nepal is a painful past riddled with careless words and broken hearts, which eventually catches up with him and forces him to make the toughest decision of his life. Along the way, Benjamin and his friends, American and Nepali alike, encounter circumstances and choices that illuminate the struggles, sacrifices, and triumphs that intimately shape the lives of volunteers in and residents of South Asia. An engaging look at the life of someone who volunteers with the Peace Corps but finds experiences that transcend even that, Jaya Nepal! is an examination of what it means to be a young person torn by the equally powerful emotions of love and desire for social justice.

Author : Piṭara J. Kārthaka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nepali fiction (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015067806342

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Every Place, Every Person by Piṭara J. Kārthaka Pdf

Author : Narayan Wagle
Publisher : Publication Nepalaya
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789937905879

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Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle Pdf

Palpasa Café tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.