Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Seasons of Flight

Manjushree Thapa
3.43/5 (176 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
It was and it was not far, where she came from. Some days her birth village felt centuries away, and other days it was too close, she could not get far enough away from it- She lived, now, in America, in a spare, uncluttered flat with a transient feel. Her only memento from home was an ammonite, a lustrous stone the colour of shale, the shape of a lopsided egg. A fossil of marine life from when the himals were below the sea, millennia ago.' Prema, a young woman adrift in war-torn rural Nepal, with little to bind her to her family, village and country, wins a green card in a US government lottery and emigrates to Los Angeles. In this unfamiliar metropolis she struggles to invent a life she can call her own, even as love, and sexual awakening, transform her. There are no constants, or signposts, as she navigates the territory of her new world. But her commitment to Esther, the old woman she is employed to care for, her passionate relationship with Luis, her American lover, and her growing involvement with the endangered El Segundo Blue butterfly, give her a fragile sense of belonging. Lyrical and haunting, and also deeply political, this new novel by the celebrated author of The Tutor of History and Forget Kathmandu confirms her reputation as one of the most original and distinctive literary voices from South Asia.
Format:
Pages:
223 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Penguin
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0670084387
ISBN13:
9780670084388
kindle Asin:
B00JUS99G4

Seasons of Flight

Manjushree Thapa
3.43/5 (176 ratings)
Read Download
It was and it was not far, where she came from. Some days her birth village felt centuries away, and other days it was too close, she could not get far enough away from it- She lived, now, in America, in a spare, uncluttered flat with a transient feel. Her only memento from home was an ammonite, a lustrous stone the colour of shale, the shape of a lopsided egg. A fossil of marine life from when the himals were below the sea, millennia ago.' Prema, a young woman adrift in war-torn rural Nepal, with little to bind her to her family, village and country, wins a green card in a US government lottery and emigrates to Los Angeles. In this unfamiliar metropolis she struggles to invent a life she can call her own, even as love, and sexual awakening, transform her. There are no constants, or signposts, as she navigates the territory of her new world. But her commitment to Esther, the old woman she is employed to care for, her passionate relationship with Luis, her American lover, and her growing involvement with the endangered El Segundo Blue butterfly, give her a fragile sense of belonging. Lyrical and haunting, and also deeply political, this new novel by the celebrated author of The Tutor of History and Forget Kathmandu confirms her reputation as one of the most original and distinctive literary voices from South Asia.
Format:
Pages:
223 pages
Publication:
2010
Publisher:
Penguin
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0670084387
ISBN13:
9780670084388
kindle Asin:
B00JUS99G4

More Books

Bel-Ami

Guy de Maupassant

कर्नाली ब्लुज [Karnali Blues]

Buddhisagar

Buddha's Orphans

Samrat Upadhyay

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

Chetan Bhagat

Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT

Chetan Bhagat

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Chetan Bhagat

Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi جوخة الحارثي

Wellness

Nathan Hill

Unsettled Ground

Claire Fuller