Darkmotherland by Upadhyay, Samrat

Darkmotherland

"A Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters, Upadhyay created an ancient world saturated with the...
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Author: Samrat Upadhyay
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Darkmotherland by Upadhyay, Samrat

Darkmotherland

$49.45

Darkmotherland

$49.45
Author: Samrat Upadhyay
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
"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 Award-winning author of Waiting

An epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake-ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal, from the Whiting Award-winning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu

In Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embrace--filled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents, paupers, fundamentalists, and a genderqueer power player with her eyes on the throne--in an earthquake-ravaged dystopian reimagining of Nepal.

At its heart are two intertwining narratives: one of Kranti, a revolutionary's daughter who marries into a plutocratic dynasty and becomes ensnared in the family's politics. And then there is the tale of Darkmotherland's 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.

Author: Samrat Upadhyay
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 768
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 2.40d
ISBN: 9781641294720


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2024 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 11/11/2024
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2024

About the Author
Samrat Upadhyay was born and raised in Nepal. He is author of the novels The City Son, The Guru of Love (a New York Times Notable Book), and Buddha's Orphans, as well as the story collections Mad Country, The Royal Ghosts, and Arresting God in Kathmandu. His work has received the Whiting Award and the Asian American Literary Award and been shortlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He has written for The New York Times and has appeared on BBC Radio and National Public Radio. Upadhyay teaches in the creative writing program at Indiana University.

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