Tilled Earth: Stories by Manjushree Thapa

Tilled Earth: Stories by Manjushree ThapaIn this, her first collection of short stories, Manjushree Thapa triumphs both as a confident innovator and a sensitive chronicler of small lives. Comprising perfectly crafted micro stories, and stories of conventional length, Tilled Earth offers glimpses into the private dramas of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at the Ministry of Home

Agatha Christie's classic short story collection

and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in lifeLucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York

but also a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travelers

pointing the way toward ways of being and rituals that help us to accept it rather than bury it

disciplined and capable of demonstrating the full merit of our potential

She had asked: What is he

since I was doing nothing

Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century

Kassabova discovers a place that has been shaped by successive forces of history: the Soviet and Ottoman empires

A chance to see into the future

and why we might only have ourselves to blame

It is the story of a dynastic struggle that provides a social