SAMRAT UPADHYAY is the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, which earned him a Whiting Award, and The Guru of Love, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize, and a Book Sense 76 pick/5. Arresting God in Kathmandu is a fiction novel by Samrat Upadhyay published in Also his first novel, this book is a collection of nine short stories that deals with the story of love and relationships. All the stories tell different tale but with more or less similar themes. Samrat Upadhyay’s MAD COUNTRY tells (poignantly and pitilessly) the stories of a cross-section of characters in Nepal and the United States: journalists harassed and murdered by their own government, a Nepali-American immigrant who joins the Ferguson protests, a white American woman in Kathmandu obsessed with Nepali culture, and a range of others: loners, fractured families, characters drawn to or .
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 a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernization throughout love and family. Arresting God in Kathmandu: Stories PDF book by Samrat Upadhyay Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. Published in August 2nd the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, short stories books. Samrat Upadhyay (Nepali: सम्राट उपाध्याय) is a Nepalese writer, born in , who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West.
Arresting God in Kathmandu is the debut book by Nepali-American author Samrat Upadhyay. Published in , Arresting God in Kathmandu was awarded the Whiting Writers' Award for fiction. [1] The book marks the first time a Nepali writer writing in English has been published in the West. Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay is a collection of short stories written by the Nepali-American author about everyday life in Kathmandu. The characters are full of flaws making them relatable in a completely uncensored way. First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in , Arresting God in Kathmandu is Upadhyay's first book. It is a collection of nine short stories. With Arresting God in Kathmandu Upadhyay won a Whiting Award. The stories 1. The Good Shopkeeper 2. The Cooking Poet 3. Deepak Misra's Secretary 4. The Limping Bride 5. During the Festival 6. The Room Next Door 7.
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