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While the Gods were sleeping

While the Gods were sleeping
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Enslin
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Era(s): Modern

Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married...

With or Without You

With or Without You
  • Author(s): Carole Matthews
  • Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jake tells Lyssa it’s not working, she knows he’s not talking about the toaster. What she doesn’t realise is that he has been seduced by another woman. Lyssa’s immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait...

Nowhere to Goa

Nowhere to Goa
  • Author(s): Doug E Jones
  • Location(s): India, Nepal, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nowhere To Goa is a travel adventure novel set in Nepal, India, and Thailand that takes off when Scott, a studious sophomore at Northwestern University, flies halfway around the world to bring home his troublesome twin brother who has...

The Abominable

The Abominable
  • Author(s): Dan Simmons
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920s

June 1924. On the brutal North East Ridge of Mount Everest, famous adventurers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanish into the snow-whipped night. Daredevil explorer Richard Deacon devises a plan to follow in the men’s footsteps, accompanied only by...

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows

A Glimpse of Eternal Snows
  • Author(s): Jane Wilson-Howarth
  • Location(s): Kathmandu, The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Set against the backdrop of one of the most colourful countries in the world, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows is an inspiring story of courage, love and a family’s determination to give their child the best life possible. In...

Annapurna: A Woman’s Place

Annapurna: A Woman’s Place
  • Author(s): Arlene Blum
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1978

In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalaya to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here...

Arresting God in Kathmandu

Arresting God in Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

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...

Breathless

Breathless
  • Author(s): Amy McCulloch
  • Location(s): Mount Manaslu
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

IT’S ICE COLD. YOU’RE MILES FROM HELP. AND ONE OF YOU WILL BE NEXT . . . Pre-order next year’s most gripping thriller now, and ensure you’re the first to read the book that everyone will be talking about…...

Buddha’s Orphans

Buddha’s Orphans
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Called “a Buddhist Chekhov” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Samrat Upadhyay’s writing has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Suketu Mehta, and compared with the work of Akhil Sharma and Jhumpa Lahiri. Upadhyay’s novel, Buddha’s Orphans, uses Nepal’s political...

Chandra’s Magic Light

Chandra’s Magic Light
  • Author(s): Theresa Heine, Judith Gueyfier (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Chandra and Deena’s family has a smoky oil lamp at home, which makes their baby brother cough. Then one day at the market, the sisters spot a man selling lamps that are powered by the sun instead of kerosene...

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