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The Royal Enigma
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Krishna Bhatt (Goodreads Author)
The unsettling politics of India and Nepal as a backdrop, where the popular leaders have to be assassinated mostly, Nawin lives through the Maoist-war in the country, bearing the hardship it caused to the ordinary people like him. He finally discovers how much his step-mother had helped him, when his mother has died recently, when he and his brother were too young. He also...more
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Published
September 28th 2011
by Krishna Chandra Bhatt
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Powerful, insightful, original, intelligent and often poetic. Krishna Bhatt brings us a macro-view of the brutal politics of Nepal and the realities of its contact-driven caste system as well as a micro-view of quotidian family life impacted by these larger, enigmatic, political realities. I was intrigued by his views of European and American culture. There is a noble, earnest searching and honest striving of a young man to make his way in the world and overcome the many obstacles embedded as en...more
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Nepal is an enigma to outsiders but a new novel opens a stunning window into the country and its society.
The Royal Enigma uniquely mixes fiction and fact to tell the epic story of the 2001 assassination of the Nepalese royal family and its ongoing impact on the people of Nepal. Chapters detailing actual events alternate with the fictional life of Nawin, his life a personal mirror on the larger tragic national events. The Royal Enigma tells a real life story in a very different and appealing way....more
The Royal Enigma uniquely mixes fiction and fact to tell the epic story of the 2001 assassination of the Nepalese royal family and its ongoing impact on the people of Nepal. Chapters detailing actual events alternate with the fictional life of Nawin, his life a personal mirror on the larger tragic national events. The Royal Enigma tells a real life story in a very different and appealing way....more
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