TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chettri,Lil Bahadur
AU  - Hutt,Michael
TI  - Mountains Painted with Turmeric
SN  - 9780231143561
AV  - PK2598.K73 B313 2008
U1  - 891.4/953 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; 1 --; 2 --; 3 --; 4 --; 5 --; 6 --; 7 --; 8 --; 9 --; 10 --; 11 --; 12 --; 13 --; 14 --; 15 --; 16 --; 17 --; 18 --; 19 --; 20 --; 21 --; 22 --; 23 --; 24 --; 25 --; 26 --; 27 --; 28 --; 29 --; 30 --; Afterword: Nepali Critics and Basain --; Notes --; Bibliography; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Since its publication in the late 1950s, Mountains Painted with Turmeric has struck a chord in the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Nepali readers. Set in the hills of far eastern Nepal, the novel offers readers a window into the lives of the people by depicting in subtle detail the stark realities of village life.Carefully translated from the original text, Mountains Painted with Turmeric tells the story of a peasant farmer named Dhané (which means, ironically, "wealthy one") who is struggling to provide for his wife and son and arrange the marriage of his beautiful younger sister. Unable to keep up with the financial demands of the "big men" who control his village, Dhané and his family suffer one calamity after another, and a series of quarrels with fellow villagers forces them into exile. In haunting prose, Lil Bahadur Chettri portrays the dukha, or suffering and sorrow, endured by ordinary peasants; the exploitation of the poor by the rich and powerful; and the social conservatism that twists a community into punishing a woman for being the victim of a crime. Chettri describes the impoverishment, dispossession, and banishment of Dhané's family to expose profound divisions between those who prosper and those who are slowly stripped of their meager possessions. Yet he also conveys the warmth and intimacy of village society, from which Dhané and his family are ultimately excluded
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/chet14356
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231512954
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231512954/original
ER  -