{"product_id":"mad-country-9788129148919","title":"Mad Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Rupa Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Rupa Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Short Stories (Single Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rupa Publications","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465134690455,"sku":"9788129148919","price":257.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788129148919.webp?v=1769307362","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mad-country-9788129148919","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}