· The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review. Eight insightful tales of the Nepalese diaspora, from a dysfunctional clan of refugees Author: John Garth. City Libraries, City of Gold Coast. Services. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share. Social. Mail. Prajwal Parajuly (né Sharma) is a Nepali-Indian author whose works focus on Nepali-speaking people and their culture. Parajuly's works include the short-story collection The Gurkha's Daughter and novel Land Where I Flee. Parajuly grew up in the Gangtok, Sikkim region of northeastern India. His father is Indian Nepalis and his mother Nepalese/5.
Prajwal Parajuly - the son of an Indian father and a Nepalese mother - divides his time between New York and Oxford, England, but disappears to Gangtok, his hometown in the Indian Himalayas, at every opportunity. Parts of The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories were written while he was a writer-in-residence at Truman State University. Prajwal Parajuly has been hailed as a writer with talents of "considerable strength." (The Guardian).Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 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. The Gurkha's Daughter: These are just some of the stories of the people whose culture and language is Nepalese but who are dispersed to India, Bhutan and beyond. From every perspective and on every page, Prajwal Parajuly blends rich colour and vernacular to paint an eye-opening picture of a unique world and its people.
The Gurkha's Daughter by Prajwal Parajuly – review. Eight insightful tales of the Nepalese diaspora, from a dysfunctional clan of refugees in Bhutan to a pair of arrivistes in New York. Nepalese. The Gurkha's Daughter: Stories, Land Where I Flee Prajwal Parajuly (né Sharma; born 24 October ) is an Indian author whose works focus on Nepali -speaking people and their culture. Parajuly's works include the short-story collection The Gurkha's Daughter and novel Land Where I Flee. The Gurkha's Daughter is a collection of short stories by Indian author Prajwal Parajuly, describing and dramatizing the experiences of Nepali -speaking people and the Nepali diaspora. The Hindustan Times described it as the "best short story collection you have read in a while".
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