Author: Laxmi Prasad DevkotaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Muna-Madan
Author: Laxmi Prasad DevkotaHimalayan Voices
Author: Michael HuttPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120811560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today. An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature-poetry and the short story-this work profiles eleven of Nepal`s most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known examples of the Nepali short story are translated into English for the first time by Michael Hutt. All provide vivid descriptions of Life in twentieth-century Nepal. This book should appeal not only to admires of Nepal, but to all readers with an interest in non-Western literatures.
Mountains Painted with Turmeric
Author: Līla Bahādura KshatrīPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231143567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Since its publication in the late 1950s, Mountains Painted with Turmeric has struck a chord in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Nepali readers. Set in the hills of far eastern Nepal, the novel offers readers a window into the lives of the people by depicting in subtle detail the stark realities of village life. Carefully translated from the original text, Mountains Painted with Turmeric tells the story of a peasant farmer named Dhané (which means, ironically, "wealthy one") who is struggling to provide for his wife and son and arrange the marriage of his beautiful younger sister. Unable to keep up with the financial demands of the "big men" who control his village, Dhané and his family suffer one calamity after another, and a series of quarrels with fellow villagers forces them into exile. In haunting prose, Lil Bahadur Chettri portrays the dukha, or suffering and sorrow, endured by ordinary peasants; the exploitation of the poor by the rich and powerful; and the social conservatism that twists a community into punishing a woman for being the victim of a crime. Chettri describes the impoverishment, dispossession, and banishment of Dhané's family to expose profound divisions between those who prosper and those who are slowly stripped of their meager possessions. Yet he also conveys the warmth and intimacy of village society, from which Dhané and his family are ultimately excluded.
Classics of Modern South Asian Literature
Author: Rupert SnellPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447040587
Category : Bengali literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Witch Doctor and Other Essays
Author: Laxmi Prasad DevkotaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789937708050
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Muna-Madan
Author: Laxmi Prasad DevkotaVoices of South Asia
Author: Patrick PeeblesPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 0765634821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Kitty Party Murder
Author: Kiran ManralPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9390327636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Malicious gossip is the least dangerous thing about this kitty group -- and the party's just getting started. Kanan Mehra, a.k.a. Kay, is bored to the gills with mommyhood, when her detective friend, Runa, asks her to help in a suicide investigation. Kay must infiltrate a ladies' kitty group and try to unearth their deepest, darkest secrets. Since this includes all-you-can-eat buffet lunches at a new restaurant every month, and the chance to show off newly acquired diamonds, Kay agrees -- much to the annoyance of her spouse, who disapproves of both kitty parties and snooping around. As Kay and Runa try to get to the truth behind the suicide, the building complex is shaken by another mysterious death. The answers they seek lie buried under fancy meals, designer dresses and serious bling -- but will Kay risk everything to get to them?
The Twentieth Wife
Author: Indu SundaresanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743428187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The story of Mehrunnisa, the daughter of servents who became the an empresses of the Mughal empire.
Palpasa Café
Author: Narayan WaglePublisher: Publication Nepalaya
ISBN: 9937905877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Palpasa Café tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.