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The City Son
A Literary Fiction Novel by Samrat Upadhyay
Subgenres:
- Psychological Drama,
- Family Drama,
- Nepal
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychological dramas about obsession and revenge in family life
- Taboo relationships that push boundaries and unsettle
- Literary fiction set in Nepal with stark emotional intensity
Set in Samrat Upadhyay's signature and timeless Nepal, The City Son offers a vivid portrait of a scorned woman's lifelong obsession with revenge and the devastating ramifications for an impressionable young man.
Samrat Upadhyay has crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a wife's obsession with her husband's illegitimate son. When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son, Tarun, in a nearby city, she takes the Masterji back into her grasp and expels his second family.
Tarun's mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind, and Tarun turns to Didi for the mothering he longs for. But as Tarun gets older, Didi's domination of the boy turns from the emotional to the physical, and the damages she inflicts spiral outward, threatening to destroy Tarun's one chance at true happiness.
Potent, disturbing, and gorgeously stark in its execution, The City Son is a novel not soon forgotten.
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