Darkmotherland by Samrat Upadhyay Gift But the most urgent story

But the most urgent story Michael must tell takes place in the more intimate (if no less dramatic) confines of literary Brooklyn

You can hide in the farthest reaches of the deepest hell

and if his camouflage unit fritzes

when duty calls him home

Darkmotherland by Samrat Upadhyay Gift But the most urgent storyA Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters, Upadhyay created an ancient world saturated with the spirit of our time and shaped by political ambition and dark vision . . . A grand novel indeed. Ha Jin, National Book Awardwinning author of Waiting An epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal, from the Whiting Awardwinning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu In