| Mad Country Contributor(s): Upadhyay, Samrat (Author) |
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ISBN: 8129148919 ISBN-13: 9788129148919 Publisher: Rupa Publications OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Asian American - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: 823.92 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.74 lbs) 262 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who's suicidal over a divorce. An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings its own heartbreak. A young man forms a bond with an African woman who has inexplicably appeared on the streets of the city. A wealthy Nepali boy-a Richie Rich-finds himself pretending to be a beggar to understand why his mother abandoned him. These eight stories are from the master chronicler of our modern-day anxieties, globalization and exile. Mad Country takes you to places that you have always yearned to go but were always afraid to. |
