{"id":12382,"date":"2020-06-24T17:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12382"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:27:40","slug":"manjushree-thapa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/manjushree-thapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Manjushree Thapa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Manjushree Thapa is an essayist, novelist and translator of Nepali literature into English. She was born in Kathmandu, raised in Nepal, Canada and the United States, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She earned a BFA in Photography at Rhode Island School of Design, and a MFA in English (Fiction) at the University of Washington in Seattle. Thapa’s non-fiction books include a travelogue, a biography, and a collection of editorials and reportage on Nepal\u2019s Maoist war and peace process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All of Us in Our Own Lives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calgary: Freehand Books, 2018.
PS8639.H38 A65 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A beautiful story of strangers who shape each other\u2019s lives in fateful ways, All of Us in Our Own Lives<\/em> delves deeply into the lives of women and men in Nepal and into the world of international aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ava Berriden, a Canadian lawyer, quits her corporate job in Toronto to move to Nepal, from where she was adopted as a baby. There she struggles to adapt to her new career in international aid and forge a connection with the country of her birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ava\u2019s work brings her into contact with Indira Sharma, who has ambitions of becoming the first Nepali woman director of a NGO; Sapana Karki, a bright young teenager living a small village; and Gyanu, Sapana\u2019s brother, who has returned home from Dubai to settle his sister\u2019s future after their father\u2019s death. Their journeys collide in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of Us in Our Own Lives<\/em> is a stunning, keenly observant novel about human interconnectedness, about privilege, and about the ethics of international aid (the earnestness and idealism and yet its cynical, moneyed nature).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards–Book Cover Design (Designer Natalie Olsen: Kisscut Design)(Winner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Seasons of Flight<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Delhi: Viking, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopis (From the author’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Seasons of Flight<\/em> is about a Nepali woman who wins a US green card in a lottery and moves to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tilled Earth: Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the author’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Tilled Earth<\/em> centres on the everyday lives of Nepalis and the Nepali diaspora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Tutor of History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopsis (From the author’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Tutor of History<\/em> is set during an election in Nepal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manjushree Thapa personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Freehand Books<\/a>, an imprint of Broadview Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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