The Gurkha's Daughter
shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize
$25.31
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2014
Summary
A pioneering collection describing and dramatizing the Nepalese diaspora - the displacement and exile of the Nepali-speaking world
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
A disfigured servant girl plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper faces an impossible dilemma; a Hindu religious festival in Darjeeling brings with it a sacrifice; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee pins her hopes on the West; a Gurkha’s daughter tries to comprehend her father’s complaint…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780872964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780872968 |
| Author: | Prajwal Parajuly |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 221g |
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Critics Review
‘Crisp, inventive and insightful … Marvellous’ Guardian .
‘Equally moving stories, the author takes us effortlessly inside the lives of the families in this remote ancient kingdom and its diaspora’ Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *
’[An] accomplished debut collection … A distinctive talent’ Financial Times. * Financial Times *
‘Crisp, inventive and insightful … Marvellous’ Guardian. * Guardian *
Prajwal Parajuly
Prajwal Parajuly - the son of an Indian father and a Nepalese mother - divides his time between New York and Oxford, England, but disappears to Gangtok, his hometown in the Indian Himalayas, at every opportunity. Parts of The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories were written while he was a writer-in-residence at Truman State University, in Kirksville, Missouri.
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