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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...

Himalaya

Himalaya
  • Author(s): Michael Palin
  • 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...

The Hospital at the End of the World

The Hospital at the End of the World
  • Author(s): Joe Niemczura
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

There are 2,600 hospitals in Asia, Africa and South America which could be classified as “Mission Hospitals” – far off the beaten path, providing basic medical service to the poorest people of the world. The Hospital at the End...

In the Land of No Right Angles

In the Land of No Right Angles
  • Author(s): Daphne Beal
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Alex, a twenty-year-old American student, is spending the year in Nepal, backpacking and photographing. As a favor to Will – her American friend – she uses one of her Himalayan treks to seek out Maya, a young Nepali woman...

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
  • Author(s): Conor Grennan
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2006

The riveting story of Conor Grennan’s year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and Three Cups of Tea. While volunteering at an orphanage, Conor discovers that the children are not orphans: they are trafficked. Despite...

The Royal Ghosts

The Royal Ghosts
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • 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,...

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...

Singing for Freedom

Singing for Freedom
  • Author(s): Ani Choying Drolma
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Ani Choying Drolma was born in Bouddha. Her childhood was full of suffering and she grew up with much pain and complexity. To get rid of the pain due to her father’s death, she went into a monastery and...

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...

The Guru of Love

The Guru of Love
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • 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...

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