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Arresting God in Kathmandu Paperback - 2001

by Samrat Upadhyay

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. "Wonderful stories full of irony, compassion and wit. Read him and you will learn about Nepal as well as yourself".--Josip Novakovich.


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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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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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  • Title Arresting God in Kathmandu
  • Author Samrat Upadhyay
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, New York
  • Date 2001-08-02
  • ISBN 9780618043712 / 0618043713
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.51 x 0.52 in (21.72 x 14.00 x 1.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Kathmandu (Nepal) - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00061328
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2001, Page 2093
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2001, Page 898
  • Library Journal, 07/01/2001, Page 128
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2001, Page 62

About the author

SAMRAT UPADHYAY is the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, which earned him a Whiting Award, and The Guru of Love, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize, and a Book Sense 76 pick. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing and literature at Indiana University.
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