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The Guru of Love
by Samrat Upadhyay
ISBN: 0618382682
ISBN-13: 9780618382682
Format: Paperback
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Summary
By a Nepalese-American writer, this novel about a married math teacher and the student he falls in love with-a teenaged single mother-takes place in Kathmandu. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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"Workaday first novel....of interest only for its exotic setting."
-- Kirkus
"The writing is emotionally restrained and doesn't call attention to itself. There are no lyrical bursts of exuberance over the country's beauty or the torments of love. At points the novel is excessively terse; when three words would have sufficed, Upadhyay uses two. In spite of that it is gripping, because you like the characters so much and wish them well....Unlike that of many writers from the Indian subcontinent who live here and write about there, there is, mercifully, nothing evocative about Upadhyay's prose." -- Suketu Mehta
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published date: 2004
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 304
Publisher's Notes
A math teacher and tutor earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and children, Ramchandra becomes involved in an illicit affair with one of his students, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young new mother. By the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu. Reprint.
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The Guru of Love: A Novel
Samrat Upadhyay
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Boston, New York: Mariner Books, 2003 290 pp. One section of the back end page is cut/ ripped. Pages clean without markings.. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by gearbooks (United States)
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Mariner Books, 2003 290 pp.; 21 cm. AS NEW. "Writing of Samrat Upadhyay's debut story collection, critics raved: 'like a Buddhist Chekhov...speak[s] to common truths...startlingly good' (San Francisco Chronicle) and 'subtle and spiritually complex' (New York Times). Upadhyay's first novel showcases his finest writing and his signature themes. The Guru of Love is a moving and important story -- important for what it illuminates about the human need to love as well as lust, and for the light it shines on the political situation in Nepal and elsewhere. Ramchandra is a math teacher earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and two children. Moonlighting as a tutor, he engages in an illicit affair with one of his tutees, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young woman who is also a new mother. She provides for him what his wife, who comes from a privileged background, does not: desire, mystery, and a simpler life. Complicating matters are various political concerns and a small city bursting with the conflicts of modernization, a static government, and a changing population. Just as the city must contain its growing needs, so must Ramchandra learn to accommodate both tradition and his very modern desires. Absolutely absorbing yet deceptively simple, this novel cements Upadhyay's emerging status as one of our most exciting new writers. / SAMRAT UPADHYAY is the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, which earned him a Whiting Award, and The Guru of Love, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize, and a Book Sense 76 pick. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and teaches creative writing and literature at Indiana University." - Publisher.. First paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Left Coast Books (United States)
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. "...Upadhyay's Kathmandu is as specific and heartfelt as Joyce's Dublin.". Paperback. Nr. Fine. ( more information) Offered by Pamela Bakes at Page Two (Australia)
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