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Arresting God in Kathmandu

Arresting God in Kathmandu

by Samrat Upadhyay

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 191 PAGES

This debut collection of stories explores the nature of desire and spirituality in ever-changing Nepali society. Upadhyay movingly depicts modernization's toll on family and love and the conflict between personal desire and societal will, in one of the first literary works by a Nepali author writing in English to be published in the US.  (NPL61, $14.95)


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