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Tilled Earth : Stories by Thapa, Manjushree is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tilled Earth : Stories about?
In this, her first collection of short stories, Manjushree Thapa triumphs both as a confident innovator and a sensitive chronicler of small lives. Comprising perfectly crafted micro stories, and stories of conventional length, Tilled Earth offers glimpses into the private dramas of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at the Ministry of Home Affairs learns to play Solitaire on the computer; a young woman goes to Seattle as a student, and finds herself becoming an illegal alien; and a retired secretary visits the Buddha's birthplace, Lumbini, only to find his deepest insecurities exposed.
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Thapa, Manjushree
- Publisher
- New Delhi: Penguin Books India
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780143102649
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Music, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (104 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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