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Mad Country


A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection

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The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who's suicidal over a divorce.

An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings its own heartbreak.

A young man forms a bond with an African woman who has inexplicably appeared on the streets of the city.

A wealthy Nepali boy—a Richie Rich—finds himself pretending to be a beggar to understand why his mother abandoned him.

These eight stories are from the master chronicler of our modern-day anxieties, globalization and exile.

Mad Country takes you to places that you have always yearned to go but were always afraid to.

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