The Vanishing ACT: Stories - Paperback

by Prawin Adhikari (Author)

In the title story, a young, out-of-work Nepali man meets a circus clown and a giant in a park in Santa Rosa, California, and in their strange predicaments finds unexpected resonances of the lives of fellow Nepali immigrants. 'Fortune' tells the story of an old man who watches his village transform into a teeming basti of migrants brought there to dam the Marshyangdi River, and finds himself thrown into a struggle against oblivion. In 'The Boy from Banauti', the river joins for one afternoon the

Author Biography

Prawin Adhikari lives in Kathmandu where he teaches and writes fiction and screenplays. He has translated A Land of Our Own by Suvash Darnal and Chapters, a collection of short stories by Amod Bhattarai and has written a couple of feature films in Nepali. He is an assistant editor at La.Lit, the literary magazine.