The Royal Ghosts (Paperback)

from auntmarge64

Set in Kathmandu during the Maoist insurgency of the late 1990s, these 9 stories lovingly explore the struggles of regular people dealing with the caste system, political upheaval, and weight of cultural expectations of modern Nepal. I found myself compulsively reading one story after another, fi...

from banjo123

[The Royal Ghosts] is a collection of short stories by Nepali writer [[Samrat Upadhyay]]. All of the stories feature individuals who are juggling personal struggles in the context of political upheaval. For example, in "A Refugee," the protagonist, Pitamber, struggles with his duty to help a youn...

from debnance

Two things intrigued me when I saw this book posted at BookCrossing: the Nepal setting and how much the reader loved the book.Story one left me regretting my decision to join the ring for this book. What? I thought. But then I got into the way the author writes and I liked it. Each story felt lik...

from klburnside

I enjoyed reading these stories. Some of the stories I would definitely give 4 stars to. i kept trying to related these stories to my experience in nepal, but it was difficult. everything in nepal always seemed so chaotic to me, but i guess that had a lot to do with language barriers and cultural...

from LaurenAileen

I had never heard of Upadhyay until he popped up on a "similar author" list. I was pleasantly surprised! The short stories were all drastically different, yet each one was great. While the author makes it clear that these stories are based in a different culture, very different from ours, the cha...