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TILLED EARTH
STORIES
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Artikel-Nr:
9789382277514
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2012
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Manjushree Thapa
Gewicht:
272 g
Format:
198x129x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Manjushree Thapa is one of South Asias best-known writers. She has written two novels Seasons of Flight and The Tutor of History and four books of non-fiction: The Lives We Have Lost: Essays and Opinions on Nepal, Forget Kathmandu:
'Thapa explores disparate lives in contemporary Nepal, and weaves them into compact, jewel-bright narratives.'-Time OutComprising perfectly crafted micro stories, and stories of conventional length, Tilled Earth off ers glimpses into the private dramas of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at the Ministry of Home Affairs learns to play Solitaire on the computer; a young woman goes to Seattle as a student, and fi nds herself becoming an illegal alien; a retired secretary visits the Buddha's birthplace, Lumbini, only to find his deepest insecurities exposed.