Background
Manjushree Thapa grew up in Nepal, Canada and the United States of America.
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Prema, a young woman adrift in war-torn Nepal, with little to bind her to her family, village and country, wins a green card in a US government lottery and emigrates to Los Angeles. In this unfamiliar metropolis she struggles to invent a life she can call her own, even as love and sexual awakening transform her. And in the end, a chance discovery of the endangered El Segundo Blue butterfly brings her to a fragile sense of belonging.
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In June 2001, the king of Nepal and almost his entire family were massacred. Unrest, simmering over the previous decade, boiled over and pushed the nation into free fall. In 2005, the dead kings brother reinstated monarchy, crushing any hope that parliamentary democracy would flourish in Nepal. A period fraught with uncertainty and intense turmoil ensued: the Maoists waged a bloody Peoples War; the monarchy mounted a bloodier counter-insurgency effort; political parties bickered and fought endlessly; and the citizens bore the brunt of it all. Wide-ranging in scope the book spans the beginning of the monarchy, through the early democratic movements, to the present Forget Kathmandu is many things: history, memoir, reportage, travelogue, analysis. But, above all, it is an unflinching, clear-sighted attempt to make sense of the bad politics that plagued and continues to plague the country. It remains as worryingly relevant to present-day Nepal as it was when first published in 2005.
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About the book: a boy from siklis: the life and times of chandra gurung a remarkable potrait of a modern-day hero, his nation and his legacy in late september 2006, chandra gurung organized an event in remote ghunsa village in eastern nepal to celebrate a landmark in the countrys conservation history: the handover of the ownership of forest areas by the government to local inhabitants. The handover also marked the apex of chandras career as an environmentalist. On the way back from ghunsa, the helicopter ferrying chandra and others crashed, killing everyone aboard. A boy from siklis traces chandra gurungs remarkable life-his birth in the tiny village of siklis; his education in nepal and abroad; his work, first with the king mahendra trust for nature conservation and then as head of the world wildlife fund nepal-and his meteoric rise as he became one the keystones of nature-conservation efforts in nepal. A compelling story of a life lived with verve and an honest desire to make a lasting difference, a boy from siklis is also a valuable and illuminating history of nature conservation in nepal, caught up in the countrys thorny politics. About the author: manjushree thapa manjushree thapa is one of south asias best-known writers. She has written two novels, seasons of flight and the tutor of history; a collection of short stories, tilled earth; and three books of non-fiction: the lives we have lost: essays and opinions on nepal, forget kathmandu: an elegy for democracy and mustang bhot in fragments. Manjushree thapa divides her time between kathmandu and toronto.
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The first major novel in English to emerge from Nepal, this is a portrait of a society in change that is ultimately a story of idealism, alienation and love. Writte with rare insight into the politics of a nation and of human relationships, this novel marks the arrival of a significant new voice from the Subcontinent.
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Manjushree Thapa grew up in Nepal, Canada and the United States of America.
She began to write upon completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2001 she published the novel The Tutor of History, which she had begun as her Master of Fine Arts thesis in the creative writing program at the University of Washington.
Her first book was. Her best known book is Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (2005), published just weeks before the royal coup in Nepal on 1 February 2005. The book was shortlisted for the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006. After the publication of the book, Thapa left the country to write against the coup.
In 2007 she published a short story collection, Tilled Earth.
In 2009 she published a biography of a Nepali environmentalist: "A Boy from Siklis: The Life and Times of Chandra Gurung." The following year she published a novel, "Seasons of Flight." In 2011 she published a nonfiction collection, "The Lives We Have Lost: Essays and Opinions on Nepal." She has also written as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times. During the fall and winter of 2011, she was writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon.
(About the book: a boy from siklis: the life and times of ...)
(Prema, a young woman adrift in war-torn Nepal, with littl...)
(The first major novel in English to emerge from Nepal, th...)
(In June 2001, the king of Nepal and almost his entire fam...)
