Manjushree Thapa
Auteur van Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy, Nepal
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Manjushree Thapa was born in Nepal and was educated in Canada and the United States. She returned to Nepal to work in various NGOs and to translate Nepalese works into English. She has also worked as a journalist and written non-fiction. Her Forget Kathmandu is an account of Nepal’s past and present which lead to her exile. The Tutor of History is her first novel and the first major novel from her country. She is committed both to Nepal and to writing.
Public and private concerns merger seamlessly in Thapa’s writing. Involvement in the political campaign reveals and challenges who individuals really are. Yet politics in Nepal is full of graft and corruption. Thapa gives us bits of speeches from the various parties to show the illusionary promises they make. At one level the political campaign moves the plot, but the process is so flawed it is doubtful that the politicans can deliver much good. What matters more becomes the personal stories of men and women of a the small village drawn into the political campaign.
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