Arresting God in Kathmandu

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 writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernization throughout love and family. Here are husbands and wives bound together by arranged marriages but sometimes driven elsewhere by an intense desire for connection and transcendence. In a city where gods are omnipresent, where privacy is elusive and family defines identity, these men and women find themselves at the mercy of their desires but at the will of their society. Psychologically rich and astonishingly acute, Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction.

Author: Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 08/02/2001
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.51w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780618043712
ISBN10: 0618043713
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Crime
- Fiction | Medical

About the Author
SAMRAT UPADHYAY is the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, which earned him a Whiting Award, and The Guru of Love, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize, and a Book Sense 76 pick. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing and literature at Indiana University.