Buddha's Orphans by Samrat Upadhyay

Buddha's Orphans by Samrat UpadhyayCalled a Buddhist Chekhov by the San Francisco Chronicle, Samrat Upadhyays writing has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Suketu Mehta, and compared with the work of Akhil Sharma and Jhumpa Lahiri. Upadhyays novel, Buddhas Orphans, uses Nepals political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege. Their love story scandalizes both families and takes

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