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The Tutor of History
Forget Kathmandu
If you’re expecting the ‘traditional’ story, with a beginning, middle, end, and a twist in the tail, you realise soon enough it’s not what you’ll get. If you think that perhaps the little vignettes will add up to something, a story or a thread that connects them into a single narrative, even that expectation is defeated. These are simply short (and sometimes not so short), reflective not-quite-portraits-not-quite-stories about ordinary, small people. The thread, if there’s any, connects the people the reader meets here to those she met in her other books, for it’s the small actors who occupy the most space in Thapa’s mind.
