![]() ![]() In "A Refugee," Pitamber offers to take Kabita and her daughter into his home and family after Maoist rebels killed her husband his kindness backfires when he generous act alienates him from his son, wife and even another family he was trying to help. The title story takes place in June 2001, on the day Nepali Crown Prince Dipendra murdered his entire family before killing himself its focus, however, is a rough-around-the-edges taxi driver coming to terms with his brother's homosexuality and his own intense loneliness. ![]() ) are set in the urban environment of modern-day Katmandu, where people's lives advance, or not, in the shadow of the country's turmoil. Nepali writer Upadhyay's stories (following last year's novel The Guru of Love ![]()
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