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Also by Prajwal Parajuly:

The Land Where I Flee, June 2015
Hardcover
The Gurkha's Daughter, July 2014
Hardcover / e-Book

The Gurkha's Daughter
Prajwal Parajuly

Quercus
July 2014
On Sale: July 1, 2014
208 pages
ISBN: 162365145X
EAN: 9781623651459
Kindle: B00HP3PG6I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction

The Gurkha’s Daughter is a moving collection of short stories of the Nepali-speaking diaspora in India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Manhattan.

Among the characters and stories that live in it are: a disfigured servant girl who plans to flee Nepal; a Kalimpong shopkeeper who faces an impossible dilemma; a Nepali-Bhutanese refugee who pins her hopes on the West; two young Nepali-speaking immigrants meet in Manhattan; and a Gurkha’s daughter who tries to comprehend her father’s dissatisfaction with her. Eye-opening, compassionate, and deeply-human, the stories of The Ghurka’s Daughter evoked a powerful realism and tenderness that reflects those very real places of the Nepalese diaspora that inspire Parajuly.

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