Samrat Upadhyay, Author . Mariner $12 (192p) ISBN 978-0-618-04371-2
Love and matrimony are as complicated in modern Nepal as anywhere else, as depicted in this debut collection of stories from one of the first Nepali authors writing in English to be published in the West. In only one of the nine stories does the...
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Samrat Upadhyay, Author . Houghton Mifflin $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-618-24727-1
"The days crept on, and Goma and the children didn't come home. He felt their absence in his bones, his chest, the membranes of his throat so that at times it was difficult for him to speak." Yet Ramchandra, a math teacher in 1990s Nepal,
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Samrat Upadhyay, Author . Mariner $12 (209p) ISBN 978-0-618-51749-7
Nepali writer Upadhyay's stories (following last year's novel The Guru of Love
) are set in the urban environment of modern-day Katmandu, where people's lives advance, or not, in the shadow of the country's turmoil. The title story...
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Samrat Upadhyay, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.00 (433p) ISBN 9780618517503
This absorbing novel is as rich in its quiet moments of loneliness and tea making as it is powerful in its presentation of an ancient culture perpetuating its own misogyny. Over four generations, Kathmandu endures the arrival of Western hippies, the
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Samrat Upadhyay. Soho, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61695-381-2
After learning that her husband—the Masterji, a tutor living and working in a nearby city—has a secret second family, Didi packs up her two young sons and meets the conflict head-on, forcing her way into Masterji’s urban home. Before long, she has...
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Samrat Upadhyay. Soho, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-61695-796-4
These smart and compelling stories by Upadhyay (Buddha’s Orphans) present poignant meditations on personal identity and nationality. The protagonists experience dramatic transformations and conflicts of self. In the title story, successful Nepalese...
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