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Recommended books (4)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Nepal. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

1.
Blue mimosa

Blue mimosa by Pārijāta EN

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal
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Recommended: 26 Apr 2023

2.
Night PB

Night by Sulochana Manandhar, tr. Muna Gurung EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal
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Recommended: 13 Apr 2019

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Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle EN

Rating: 3     1 Vote
Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal
Description:
A journalist sits in a café waiting for his subject—an artist called Drishya about whom he wants to write a novel. But Drishya doesn’t come. For that morning he has been visited by Maoists at his home and abducted by them... So begins Palpasa Café, the extraordinary novel by Nepali journalist Narayan Wagle, which has become a sensation in the country. Starting with the murders of the royal family, it tells the troubled story of contemporary Nepal through the eyes of a romantic artist who falls in love, wanders the war-struck countryside and dreams of creating a café named after his beloved whi... continue
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Recommended: 21 May 2022

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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama EN

Rating: 4.5     2 Votes
Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal
Description:
"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint--a relic known to vanish and reappear in times of need. Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is livi... continue
Recommended: 21 Aug 2023


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