{"product_id":"nothing-to-declare-9780143415435","title":"Nothing To Declare","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rabi Thapa\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Nepal suddenly felt far away and perhaps not at all. Sure, his parentswere thousands of kilometres away, and so was the dust of Nepal, buthis own Nepal, smoking and drinking with friends, was right here.’In the title story, Bikram achieves his most urgent middle-class dream, toemigrate to London. Young phoren-returned Nepalis hang out in the bars ofThamel in ‘Night Out in Kathmandu’, sharing tables with those who did not—could not—go. They talk about pretty much the same things: visas, music,booze, the impossibility of getting laid in the city. There are foreigners too,trekking on the usual routes, smoking cheap grass and looking for their innerselves. The Maobadis loom large in ‘Home for Dashain’, wreaking vengeanceon behalf of the people. Though rarely mentioned in the city, they are everpresent, invoked by the sad pole dancers in the more risqué bars and thetransvestites pounding the streets looking for customers. And in ‘Aryaghat’, aKathmandu family lays to rest the ashes of a Nepali boy who has committedsuicide in Alabama.The sixteen stories in Nothing to Declare are passionate, pensive and attimes disenchanted. They mirror the experiences of the middle-class youthof Kathmandu as they build lives, trying to make sense—and pushing thelimits—of a rapidly changing but ever-conservative society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46296339480727,"sku":"9780143415435","price":130.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780143415435.webp?v=1769304456","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/nothing-to-declare-9780143415435","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}