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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...

Slowly Slowy: The Old Way to Everest Base Camp

Slowly Slowy: The Old Way to Everest Base Camp
  • Author(s): Lee Prescott
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lee Prescott had twice been thwarted in his lifetime ambition – to see Mount Everest with his own eyes. This was in no way due to lack of planning, preparation or ability on his part. After a decade of...

Snowfed Waters

Snowfed Waters
  • Author(s): Jane Wilson-Howarth
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000

Sonia flees to Nepal intrigued by her family’s connections with the subcontinent but it isn’t so easy to escape from herself. She does though find a nurturing community with a deep and admirable spirituality and begins to be able...

Tell Them My Name

Tell Them My Name
  • Author(s): Laura Maya
  • Location(s): Europe, Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dar Kumari is an indigenous Gurung woman living in the Nepali Himalayas with her elderly husband, Nar Bahadur. Their mud-brick house is in a remote farming village that has no electricity and can only be reached on foot. Their...

Thamel: dark star of Kathmandu

Thamel: dark star of Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Rabi Thapa
  • Location(s): Kathmandu
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): from prehistory to the present

An erudite history of Thamel from pre-history through the druggie years to the rise of sex tourism and night clubs to the days of adventure tourism told through local informants

The Ancient Evil Versus the Good Boy

The Ancient Evil Versus the Good Boy
  • Author(s): Zachary Finn
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jon Riley begins volunteering at the Richter Street Animal Shelter, he hopes it will help bring some purpose to his life. After all, who doesn’t like hanging out with a few dogs after a tough day at work?...

The Ascent

The Ascent
  • Author(s): Ronald Malfi
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Having lost himself in extreme sports since the death of his wife, sculptor Tim Overleigh joins a team of men bent on climbing the Godesh Ridge in Nepal in order to stop his downward spiral, only to find what...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The City Son

The City Son
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Set in Samrat Updhyay’s signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned woman’s lifelong obsession to get revenge for her husband’s infidelity, with devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man. Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat...

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu

The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Tom Vater
  • Location(s): Nepal, India, Iran, Pakistan, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s, 1990s

A TENSE, FAST PACED AND KALEIDOSCOPIC PULP THRILLER, FOLLOWING THE LIVES OF TWO GENERATIONS OF DRIFTERS EMBROILED IN A SAGA OF SEX, DRUGS AND MURDER ON THE ROAD BETWEEN LONDON AND THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. In 1976, four...

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