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Mar 10, 2018
Andrea
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Short stories where the characters are not allowed to have sophisticated thoughts and tend to go around having (mostly) guilty, joyless sex. I managed to finish it - the pagecount was low - but I’ll be wary of reading any more Upadhyay in future.
Dec 12, 2024
Nicole Bergen
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A lovely short story collection that rounds out my literary tour of Asia. Seems fitting that I’ve finished reading a book from every country in Asia on Human Rights Day since books can connect us to a variety of people around the world and make it harder for politicians to dupe us into relying on stereotypes after we’ve seen the humanity in even people who are incredibly different from us.
Upahdyay's Nepal is the modern place beyond the guidebooks, where tradition grapples with modernity and loses, where a businessman divorces an American woman and has an affair with his secretary, where another married man resigns himself to his wife's infidelity. Even in the hinterlands, tradition is waning: the mother of a student who comes back pregnant from the city agrees to marry her off to a ne'er-do-well, only to learn that the new couple seems to be happier than the parents. These storie
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