Tag: Nepal
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The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke
MALAYSIA The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke is a richly detailed historical novel set in colonial Malaya, loosely inspired by the author’s own family history. I read it while travelling through Kota Bharu, one of Malaysia’s more traditional states, which gave the novel an added sense of resonance. There was…
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Nepal: temples, rhinos, clouds, and one very chaotic Valentine’s Day
Nepal had been sitting in my imagination for years before we ever got there. I think for a lot of New Zealanders, there is something about Nepal that feels strangely close, even before you arrive. Maybe it is Everest. Maybe it is Edmund Hillary. Maybe it is just that the mountains loom so large in…
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All of Us in Our Own Lives – Manjushree Thapa
NEPAL Manjushree Thapa’s All of Us in Our Own Lives unfolds across contemporary Nepal and the wider world, tracing the intersecting lives of Ava Berriden, Indira Sharma, Sapana Karki, and Gyanu. Ava, adopted from Nepal and raised in Canada, returns to Kathmandu as an adult, working in international aid after stepping away from her corporate…
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Darkmotherland – Samrat Upadhyay
NEPAL I read Darkmotherland while travelling through Nepal on long, winding drives along roads that could clearly use more investment, in Nagarkot waiting for Mt Everest to pop through the clouds, and on a quiet balcony overlooking the lake in Pokhara. It is a novel about a country shaken by catastrophe and reshaped by power,…
The Peterson Odyssey 