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Product Description: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyayâthe first Nepali-born novelist writing in English to be published in the Westâhas crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a wifeâs obsession with her husbandâs illegitimate son...read more
Hardcover:
9781616953812 | Soho Pr Inc, June 17, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
Paperback:
9781616955380 | Soho Pr Inc, May 12, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781483013701 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 17, 2014), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: [Read by Priya Ayyar] Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
Product Description: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyayâthe first Nepaliborn novelist writing in English to be published in the Westâhas crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a wifeâs obsession with her husbandâs illegitimate son...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781483013688 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 17, 2014), cover price $76.00 | About this edition: Set in Samrat Upadhyayâs signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womanâs lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
9781483013695 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, June 17, 2014), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Priya Ayyar] Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
Product Description: 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 new novel, Buddha's Orphans, uses Nepal's political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege...read more
Hardcover:
9780618517503 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, July 14, 2010), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Buddha s Orphans is a novel permeated with the sense of how we are irreparably connected to the mothers who birthed us and of the way events of the past, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present.
Paperback:
9780547469904 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, July 12, 2011), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: 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.
Miscellaneous:
9780547488400 | Houghton Mifflin, July 14, 2010, cover price $26.00
Characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society struggle with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the frustrations of arranged marriage, in a collection of stories by the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu. Reader's Guide available. Original.
Paperback:
9780618517497 | Houghton Mifflin, February 9, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories about characters in Nepali society struggling with their duties to their aging parents, an oppressive caste system, and the frustrations of arranged marriage.
Miscellaneous:
9780547561486 | Houghton Mifflin, February 9, 2006, cover price $12.00
Hardcover:
9780618247271 | Houghton Mifflin, January 16, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A math teacher and tutor earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and children, Ramchandra becomes involved in an illicit affair with one of his students, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young new mother.
Paperback:
9780618382682 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, February 5, 2004), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A math teacher and tutor earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and children, Ramchandra becomes involved in an illicit affair with one of his students, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young new mother.
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Paperback:
9780824825126 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $16.00
Exploring the nature of desire and spirituality in an ever-changing society, a collection of stories by a Nepali author examines the effects of modernization on family and love and occasional conflict between personal desire and the will of their society. Original.
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Paperback:
9780618043712 | Mariner Books, August 2, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Exploring the nature of desire and spirituality in an ever-changing society, a collection of stories by a Nepali author examines the effects of modernization on family and love and occasional conflict between personal desire and the will of society.
9789990854817 | Mariner Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $0.02
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