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He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States at the age of twenty-one.
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Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay (2001-08-02)
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Arresting God in Kathmandu
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From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-established writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernization throughout love and family. Here are husbands and wives bound together by arranged marriages but sometimes driven elsewhere by an intense desire for connection and transcendence. In a city where gods are omnipresent, where privacy is elusive and family defines identity, these men and women find themselves at the mercy of their desires but at the will of their society. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Samrat Upadhyay
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Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was an English professor at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio before moving to Indiana in 2003.
His books specially portray the current situation in Nepal, which Upadhyay views largely though the lens of contemporary American realist fiction.
First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2001, Arresting God in Kathmandu is Upadhyay"s first book lieutenant is a collection of nine short stories.
The stories
1. The Good Shopkeeper
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The Cooking Poet
3. Deepak Misra"s Secretary
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The Limping Bride
5. During the Festival
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The Room Next Door
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The Manitoba with Long Hair
8. This World
9. A Great Manitoba"s House
The Guru of Love (2003)
First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2003, The Guru of Love is Upadhyay"s second book and first full-length novel. The Guru of Love was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003.
lieutenant is not the basis for the 2008 Mike Myers film The Love Guru.
The Royal Ghosts (2006)
First published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2006, The Royal Ghosts is Upadhyay"s third book, a collection of nine short stories. The stories
1. A Refugee
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The Wedding Hero
3. The Third Stage
4. Supreme Pronouncements
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The Weight of a Gun
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Chintamani"s Women
7. Father, Daughter
8. A Servant in the City
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The Royal Ghosts
Using Nepal"s political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop, it tells the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege.
Their love story scandalizes both families and takes readers through time and across the globe, through the loss of and search for children, and through several generations, hinting that perhaps old bends can, in fact, be righted in future branches of a family tree. The City Son (2014).
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Arresting God in Kathmandu
(From the first Nepali author writing in English to be pub...)
- Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay (2001-08-02)
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Arresting God in Kathmandu
