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- 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...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 2000s
Michael Palin’s travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back at his adventurous best tie-ing in with a major BBC TV series. The book/series will travel through many countries little known to the...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
With emotional precision and narrative subtlety, The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society. Against the backdrop of the violent Maoist insurgencies that have claimed thousands of lives,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Writing of Samrat Upadhyay’s debut story collection, critics raved: “like a Buddhist Chekhov . . . speak to common truths . . . startlingly good” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “subtle and spiritually complex” (New York Times). Upadhyay’s first novel...