Mad Country
Stories

After reading these seven stories and one novella, I want to reach out to all my reading friends and say, “THIS is how it’s done!” Samrat Upadhyay, a chronicler of Napalese fiction, creates fictional worlds so seamlessly that he makes short story writing look easy. And of course, it’s not. The theme......more

As my first ever experience to start to read Nepali literature, I thought this book will give me pure Himalayan essences. With an expectation to have Himalayan flavor, I started to read this book, but the first one gave me different taste. That was an interesting story based on a Nepali powerful fem......more

Lately I've been reading a lot of short stories that target specific cultures and/or locations. Present in these collections is, given their contemporary nature, a commonality thanks to globalization. By taking the time to write interconnected stories, authors present a more vivid, encompassing view......more

Mad Country is a collection of eight short stories by the award-winning author of Himalayan country Nepal, Samrat Upadhyay. The stories read like a dream like it was played in the writer’s unconscious mind and the next thing he did is write them down. The stories are ethereal beauty and characters a......more

Mad book, more like. I love Samrat Upadhay's language, the easy way he shows us things and people, his skilful use of simple words to achieve complex results. Buddha's Orphans is my favorite. But this collection disappointed, and terribly. The premises are all excellent. A stellar editor (a character......more