SAMRAT UPADHYAY

Ramchandra está casado con Goma y tiene dos hijos a los que adora. Es profesor de matemáticas en una escuela de Katamandú y para redondear su sueldo da clases particulares en su pequeño apartamento. Un dia inicia una relacion con la joven y hermosa Malati, una de sus alumnas, que alterara por completo su vida familiar, hasta el punto de llegar a convivir con las dos mujeres bajo un mismo techo. Pero el desarrollo de este conflicto a tres bandas se resuelve de una forma mucho mas compleja de lo que cabe esperar, y Ramchandra se dara cuenta que conoce a su mujer, y quizas a el mismo, mucho menos de lo que cree.Guru de amor es una absorbente historia de amor y perdida, un relato conmovedor que retrata magistralmente las fronteras entre clases, culturas y sexos en el Nepal contemporaneo. Una historia de sorprendente agudeza psicologica que refleja el conflicto entre las costumbres urbanas y la ancestral tradicion cultural.

Set in Samrat Upadhyays signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned womans lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyaythe first Nepali-born novelist writing in English to be published in the Westhas crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a wifes obsession with her husbands illegitimate son. When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son, Tarun, in a nearby city, she takes the Masterji back into her grasp and expels his second family. Taruns mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind, and Tarun turns to Didi for the mothering he longs for. But as Tarun gets older, Didis domination of the boy turns from the emotional to the physical, and the damages she inflicts spiral outward, threatening to destroy Taruns one chance at true happiness. Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.

A Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters, Upadhyay created an ancient world saturated with the spirit of our time and shaped by political ambition and dark vision . . . A grand novel indeed. Ha Jin, National Book Awardwinning author of WaitingAn epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake-ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal, from the Whiting Awardwinning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu In Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embracefilled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents, paupers, fundamentalists, and a genderqueer power player with her eyes on the thronein an earthquake-ravaged dystopian reimagining of Nepal.At its heart are two intertwining narratives: one of Kranti, a revolutionarys daughter who marries into a plutocratic dynasty and becomes ensnared in the familys politics. And then there is the tale of Darkmotherlands new dictator and his mistress, Rozy, who undergoes radical body changes and grows into a figure of immense power.Darkmotherland is a romp through the vast space of a globalized universe where personal ambitions are inextricably tied to political fortunes, where individual identities are shaped by family pressures and social reins, and where the East connects to and collides with the West in brilliant and unsettling ways.

Samrat Upadhyays new collection vibrates at the edges of intersecting cultures. Journalists in Kathmandu are targeted by the government. A Nepali man studying in America drops out of school and finds himself a part of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri. A white American woman moves to Nepal and changes her name. A Nepali man falls in love with a mysterious foreign black woman. A rich kid is caught up in his own fantasies of poverty and bank robbery. In the title story, a powerful woman, the owner of a construction company, becomes a political prisoner, and in stark and unflinching prose we see both her world and her mind radically remade. Through the course of the stories in this collection, Upadhyay builds new modes of seeing our interconnected contemporary world. A collection of formal inventiveness, heartbreak and hope, it reaffirms Upadhyays position as one or our most important chroniclers of globalization and exile.