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Ripheart Mountains - Subarna Prasad Acharya

Ripheart Mountains

Subarna Prasad Acharya
Subarna Prasad Acharya , English
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Set at the time of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and at the heart of their stronghold, this story captures the tales of the poor and helpless people of the remote mountains through the eyes of a narrator who has untold stories of his own. From the foreigner who dreams about bays, beaches, beers and bikinis to the local people who are unable to afford even the cheapest of medicines; from a little baby that dies during the dead of the night to the new mother who miraculously survives a septicemia; and from a housewife who is shunned by her own family as she loses one of her hands because of gangrene and is unable to work anymore to the patient who is going to die a slow and painful death, this is a story of stories narrated with uncanny precision and remarkable dynamism.
From the horrific incidences that had occurred during the peak of the insurgency to the most open and humorous jokes, and from the sensitivity deeply rooted in local culture to the most bitter and heart-ripping experiences of one man’s desperate and maddening battles with the inevitable...

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