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Darjeeling in the 1950s. Janak, a prominent businessman and local leader, stares at professional, political and moral ruin. His store is failing and he has been sued by Jayabilas-a Marwari trader, once his friend and business partner, to whom he owes money. Bhudev-Janak’s partner at the party which is working to organize workers-has triumphed over him in a bitter struggle for leadership. Janak’s son Ravi, of whom he expected better, has become a ...
All of Us in Our Own Lives is the story of an encounter between strangers who shape each others’ lives in fateful ways.
Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer, quits her corporate law firm in Toronto, leaves her passionless marriage and moves to Nepal, from where she was adopted as a baby. In Kathmandu, she struggles to launch a new career in international aid and to forge a connection with the country of her birth.
Ava’s work brings her into contact with ...
The first major novel in English to emerge from Nepal, The Tutor of History is a portrait of a society in change that is ultimately a story of idealism, alienation and love. The events of the novel unfold against the backdrop of a campaign for parliamentary elections in the bustling roadside town of Khaireni Tar. As its heart the book is about four main characters: Rishi Parajuli, a lonely, under-employed bachelor and disillusioned communist who gives private ...
In June 2001, King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah was killed in a massacre at Kahmandu's Narayanhiti royal palace, allegedly by his own son, the crown prince, and the world took new notice of Nepal. Since then, several thousand lives have been lost to a state counter-insurgency. Parliamentary democracy, too - won late, in 1990 - has been lost. And there are no clear indications of how long it will be before the civil war ends and popular government is restored. In this ...
In "Tilled Earth" several compressed, poetic and deeply evocative micro-stories offer fleeting glimpses of small, private dramas of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at the Ministry of Home Affairs learns to play Solitaire on the computer; a young man is drawn to politics against his better judgement; a child steals her classmate's book . . . ...