Description
If you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who’s suicidal over a divorce. An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings its own heartbreak. A young man forms a bond with an African woman who has inexplicably appeared on the streets of the city. A wealthy Nepali boy—a Richie Rich—finds himself pretending to be a beggar to understand why his mother abandoned him. These eight stories are from the master chronicler of our modern-day anxieties, globalization and exile. Mad Country takes you to places that you have always yearned to go but were always afraid to.
Specification
- Product Code : BK8719
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- Edition : October 1, 2017
- Pages : 262
- Weight : 200 gm.
- Size : 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
- Binding : Paperback
- Author : Samrat Upadhyay
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8129148919
ISBN-13: 978-8129148919
Description
Description
If you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who’s suicidal over a divorce. An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings its own heartbreak. A young man forms a bond with an African woman who has inexplicably appeared on the streets of the city. A wealthy Nepali boy—a Richie Rich—finds himself pretending to be a beggar to understand why his mother abandoned him. These eight stories are from the master chronicler of our modern-day anxieties, globalization and exile. Mad Country takes you to places that you have always yearned to go but were always afraid to.
Specification
- Product Code : BK8719
- Publisher : Rupa Publications India
- Edition : October 1, 2017
- Pages : 262
- Weight : 200 gm.
- Size : 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
- Binding : Paperback
- Author : Samrat Upadhyay
- Language : English
- ISBN-10: 8129148919
ISBN-13: 978-8129148919
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