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Rupa Publications India THE VANISHING ACT Stories by Prawin Adhikari
In the title story, a young, outofwork 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 divergent fates of two young boys playing truant and inventing stories And in The Messiah’, a wounded man remembers a martyr and worries about their place in his nation’s turbulent history