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product_id: 41899367
title: "MAD COUNTRY"
brand: "samrat upadhyay"
price: "₩53915"
currency: KRW
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reviews_count: 4
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# MAD COUNTRY

**Brand:** samrat upadhyay
**Price:** ₩53915
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- **What is this?** MAD COUNTRY by samrat upadhyay
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MAD COUNTRY

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## Customer Reviews

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    Don’t bother!
  

*by F***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2019*

I read this book before going to Nepal.  I learned very little about the uniqueness of Nepal.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Metamorphosis
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 29, 2017*

I wasn't entirely sure what I thought about the stories in this book as I worked my way through it.  So many of them seemed to be about people who are, for want of a better way to describe them, lost souls; people who lack something in their lives.  On the surface they seem to be reasonably well adjusted, or at least to know what it is they want from their lives.  But as each story progresses, they all have strange, often disturbing transformations, slipping easily into different realities.These stories are about metamorphoses, the most jarring of which are people of privilege who slip into lives of less privilege and (seemingly) greater simplicity.  Sofi, an American girl, loses herself in the Nepali culture, insisting on becoming Nepali, and forgetting about her old life in Ohio.  But underneath the new surface and new name is the old Sofi, who is betrayed by her own needs.  Anamika, is a successful business woman with a truant son and disabled husband. Her adept manipulation of others fails her, and she is arrested and held in prison where she undergoes a profound change, a rejection of all she'd held dear, and we see her essential character as being quite different from what we had first thought.These are stories which require a good deal of thought.  They don't easily give up their meaning, and even seem to lead nowhere in some cases.  But when taken as a whole, as pieces of a larger narrative, they describe our desire to escape life's difficulties, and the way in which our own personalities will always color those escapes.Well worth your time.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An intriguing collage
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2017*

It is difficult to write a comprehensive review of a series of stories. Indeed, for me, it is always a temptation to try to do an “overall evaluation”, but this approach is often unsuccessful, because they are really separate entities, and some I relate to better than others. Another thing that makes this effort challenging is that I really know next to nothing about Nepalese culture and history.The longest story in the collection – really a novelette – is “Dreaming of Ghana”. In its 90 pages, Upadhyay creates a confusing domestic drama; his main character, Aakash is for some reason a “major problem” for his parents because, it seems, he “lacks ambition” although he is obviously a nice person with a strong streak of compassion. I was completely unable to relate to the parents’ attitude, and was not clear on any of the motivations portrayed in this story.As for the title story, “Mad Country”, if such a horrific sequence of events really could occur in Nepal, it is so totally appalling that I have no real way to relate.None-the-less, these narratives do form an intriguing collage, and readers who are interested in what may be a “cultural experience” should find this book worthwhile.

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