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In Manjushree Thapa’s novel Seasons of Flight, Prema leaves behind a country caught between Maoist insurgency and brutal counter-insurgency, and a sister who has joined the Maoists. Her flight takes her from her village up in the hills of Nepal to a beachside neighbourhood of LA. She leaves behind an ageing father to work as a homecare attendant of an elderly American woman. More:
My #6 (a backup, because initially I didn’t know if short fiction (my Bolamntilde;o choice) would qualify) was The Tutor of History by the Nepali novelist and essayist Manjushree Thapa. Published by Penguin UK, Tutor — the first major English-language novel by a Nepali writer – was not released in the U.S.; and so not many American readers know of it. But this was a book that got me out of a reader’s slump (as described by Lydia Kiesling in an essay earlier this summer)—a slump that was composed, as it turned out, of three award-winning novels.
Manjushree Thapa Manjushree Thapa, born in Nepal, is the author of three books of fiction: The Tutor of History; Tilled Earth; and Seasons of Flight. She is also the author of several nonfiction books, including Forget Kathmandu. She has translated Nepali literature into English, most recently in The Country is Yours. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications worldwide, including the New York Times and the London Review of Books. She lives in Toronto and Kathmandu.
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