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  • ARRESTING GOD IN KATHMANDU
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    ARRESTING GOD IN KATHMANDU
    SAMRAT UPADHYAY
    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. ...

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  • THE GURU OF LOVE
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    THE GURU OF LOVE
    SAMRAT UPADHYAY
    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 pro...

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  • BUDDHA'S ORPHANS
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    BUDDHA'S ORPHANS
    SAMRAT UPADHYAY
    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...

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  • THE ROYAL GHOSTS
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    THE ROYAL GHOSTS
    SAMRAT UPADHYAY
    "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...

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