Basnet Anurag (14 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: New. ISBN:9780143471035 N.A.

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Soft cover. Condition: New. 1986. Labda, a rain-washed, sun-soaked village near Darjeeling. Six friends Karnabahadur, Tshering, Ambar, Buddha, Rajvir and Sarita attend school together here. Elsewhere, on the streets of Darjeeling, a struggle is brewing for a separate state of Gorkhaland in India. Soon, the hot winds of that violent Andolan sweep inexorably into Labda and transform the village into a battleground. Students turn on their teachers, villages and families are divided along party lines, and everyone is forced to take sides. Those who don t are compelled to run away, never to return.Spanning thirty years, This Place of Mud and Bone follows the lives of these schoolmates as they negotiate a political struggle that continually shapeshifts but never ends. The novel tells the story of how Karnabahadur transformed into Angulimaal and why Buddha was forced to kill him; it describes why Tshering became Tshering the Murderer and, eventually, Mad Tshering; it explores the circumstances that made Ambar hang himself; and describes why Sarita ended up selling eggs in a hospital. Even as it captures the minutiae of individual, yet intertwined, lives, this capacious novel also a contemporary history of the Darjeeling hills shows how people learn to absorb violence and live with it, and how a man who has made up his mind can be the strongest force on earth. …

Hardcover. Condition: New. Darjeeling, late 1980s. The demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland has taken a violent turn. The Green Party is at war with the Red Party-and with the state's security forces. Murder, loot, terror and arson beset the Himalayan foothills. Fruits of the Barren Tree is a story of that time, and of Relling, a small village near Darjeeling. In Relling there's Basnet, the village shaman, and his wife; there's Jhuppay, their son-incorrigible thief, truant and amateur drunk; and also Nimma, Jhuppay's great love, whose only desire in life is that he take the path of virtue. There's Chyaatar too, former army man, now a militia commander in the Green Party, who rules the village with an iron hand. Ever the miscreant, nothing Jhuppay does can win Nimma's heart. But when the Red Party hires his loudspeaker for a meeting-the first innocent, honest job of his life-it sets Jhuppay, Nimma and Chyaatar on a murderous course that fate itself cannot derail. Originally published in Nepali as Phoolange, this sharp, evocative novel is the story of a failed movement and a cautionary tale of how easily the contagion of violence can infect a community. Intensely visual and imbued with a strong sense of place, it is equally a compelling portrait of Darjeeling away from the brochures and the postcards.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. large type / large print edition edition. 256 pages. 7.81x5.06x0.54 inches. In Stock.

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