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Mad Country: Stories by Samrat Upadhyay [in Library Journal]

30 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nepali, Nepali American, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW Vikas Adam’s remarkable chameleonic range proves ideal for Samrat Upadhyay’s (Arresting God in Kathmandu) latest superb collection, set mostly in Nepal. Exceptionally gifted with accents, Adam could easily be mistaken for a multi-person cast; he's effortlessly convincing as a disappointed father, a female inmate,...

The City Son by Samrat Upadhyay

18 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nepali, Nepali American

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." "Frailty, thy name is woman." "Women always have the last word." All manner of pithy, less-than-admirable aphorisms about women come to mind after reading Samrat Upadhyay’s recent novel; such words as shocking, disturbing, wrenching, shattering also seem quite appropriate. And in case you...

Author Interview: Manjushree Thapa [in Bookslut]

06 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Nepali, Nepali American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

Blame it on family, on the country-of-residence-at-the-moment, on the tumultuous politics of her motherland of Nepal, but certainly Manjushree Thapa has lived a life in flux, repeatedly adjusting to unpredictability. Born in Kathmandu, she moved as a toddler to Canada (young enough to acquire English...

The End of the World by Sushma Joshi

15 Jan, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nepali, Short Stories

Few Nepali writers have thus far landed on western bookshelves, with only two exceptions who come immediately to mind – elegant Samrat Upadhyay (Arresting God in Kathmandu, The Royal Ghosts) and activist Manjushree Thapa (The Tutor of History, Seasons of Flight). So to find another Nepali author writing in English is a...

Seasons of Flight by Manjushree Thapa

13 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nepali, Nepali American, South Asian, South Asian American

Nepal-born Manjushree Thapa, herself a peripatetic hybrid of East and West with an American education and Canadian ties, is one of a handful of Nepali authors successfully writing in English. This, her latest novel (and only her second in her almost two-decade writing history with seven titles...

Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind by Jennifer J. Stewart

03 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nepali, Nonethnic-specific

Look past the cheesy cover and pop-culture title ...

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan [in Christian Science Monitor]

07 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nepali, Nonfiction, Repost

Two warnings: 1. Don’t read Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal in public unless you enjoy making a spectacle of yourself, wiping your eyes and blowing your nose every few pages; 2. Skip the middle photo insert until...

I See the Sun in Nepal by Dedie King, illustrated by Judith Inglese, translation by Chij Shrestha

16 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Nepali, Nonethnic-specific

From China to Nepal, boutique press Satya House Publications offers the second title in their I See the Sun series in which a young girl shares her day...

Buddha’s Orphans by Samrat Upadhyay

05 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nepali, Nepali American

First off, Samrat Upadhyay is one of my favorite short story-tellers. His debut Arresting God in Kathmandu remains one of the most memorable collections I've ever read, and a quote from the review I...

Sacred Mountain Everest by Christine Taylor-Butler [in Bloomsbury Review]

05 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Middle Grade Readers, Nepali, Nonfiction, Repost

An informative look – underscored with lively photographs – at the history and future of Mount Everest, a sacred place for the locals, overtaken by adventurous tourism, and currently suffering the high price of so-called modern progress. Review: "In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month:...

Mountains Painted with Turmeric by Lil Bahadur Chettri, translated by Michael J. Hutt [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Nepali, Repost, South Asian, Translation

mountains-painted-with-turmeric Ironically named “Wealthy One,” Dhané is a poor farmer who can’t get a lucky break in the small village his family has called home for many generations. Originally published in the 1950s, this new edition offers...

Sold by Patricia McCormick

20 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Nepali, Nonethnic-specific, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Although her family is extremely poor, 13-year-old Lakshmi’s young life in a mountainous village in Nepal is not without moments of great joy and comfort. But then the monsoons arrive, leaving behind only destruction and...

Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay: The Boy Whose Dream Was Everest by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Ed Young [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Biography, Children/Picture Books, Nepali, Nonfiction, Repost

tiger-of-the-snows Ed Young’s superb illustrations bring to life the journey of legendary Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay who, together with Edmund Hillary, became the first climbers to reach the top of Mt. Everest in 1953. While...

The Royal Ghosts: Stories by Samrat Upadhyay [in Christian Science Monitor]

21 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nepali, Nepali American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

royal-ghosts While Samrat Upadhyay's latest short story collection, The Royal Ghosts: Stories, offers no happy endings, few feel-good moments, and hardly any contented characters, it is most undoubtedly an enticing book to savor and reread for all...

I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket by Ed Young [in AsianWeek]

03 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Nepali, Repost

I, Doko A haunting, lovingly illustrated story, told from the point of view of a basket that serves three generations of a Nepali family. As the basket's frail, aged owner is about to be left on...

Heir to a Silent Song: Two Rebel Women of Nepal by Barbara Nimri Aziz [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Nepali, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian

Heir to Silent Song A history of two revolutionary women in Nepal who challenged corruption and dictatorship, whose stories were deliberately lost and then nearly forgotten, and the author’s own search for truth. Review: <a...

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