TILLED EARTH : STORIES

Thapa explores disparate lives
in contemporary Nepal, and weaves them into compact, jewel-bright
narratives.’-Time Out Comprising perfectly crafted micro stories, and stories
of conventional length, Tilled Earth off ers glimpses into the private dramas
of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern
Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at
the Ministry of Home Affairs learns to play Solitaire on the computer; a
young woman goes to Seattle as a student, and fi nds herself becoming an
illegal alien; a retired secretary visits the Buddha’s birthplace, Lumbini,
only to find his deepest insecurities exposed.