LIBROS DEL AUTOR: manjushree thapa

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  • Forget Kathmandu
    MANJUSHREE THAPA
    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 bl...
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    19,70 €

  • The Tutor of History
    Manjushree Thapa
    It is the late 1990s, a few years into constitutional democracy in Nepal, and the government has collapsed. In Khaireni Tar, a small town on the Kathmandu-Pokhara highway, four separate lives come together during the campaign for fresh elections: Rishi Parajuli, a disillusioned communist who gives private tuitions in history; Giridhar Adhikari, an alcoholic who is the chairman ...
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    26,38 €

  • TILLED EARTH
    Manjushree Thapa
    ’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...
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    18,80 €