“The Gurkha’s daughter” Prajwal Parajuly (2013) Review | Nepal and Diaspora

★★★★☆ Nepal and Diaspora, sense of not belonging where they live. Far from home people’s tradition and customs are distant memories while the feelings for home gets stronger.

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The Gurkha's daughter 
Prajwal Parajuly, 2013
280 pages
Read in 2024.09

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The Gurkha's daughter 
Prajwal Parajuly, 2013
280 pages
Read 2024.09


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
A collection of short stories of people who have different ties to Nepal.

It's about lives of people living in diaspora, sense of not belonging where they live.
To begin with, 
Nepalese people in Darjeeling area have a different sense of home, and not necessarily uniformed. 
And how about Nepalese in Bhutan who got kicked out to Nepal?
Or Muslim from Bihar in Kalimpong? 
A guy from Darjeeling in New York who's never been to Nepal?

The stories are subtly harsh and sad but not exaggeratingly dramatic, just like real lives of real people, they carry their own inevitable drama and the longing, between tradition and practice and sense of home.
Nice short stories.

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The Gurkha's Daughter: shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize

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The Gurkha's Daughter: shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize

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