From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly
explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom
of a long-established writer, Upadhyay records the echoes of modernization throughout love and family. Here are
husbands and wives bound together by arranged marriages but sometimes driven elsewhere by an intense desire for
connection and transcendence. In a city where gods are omnipresent, where privacy is elusive and family defines
identity, these men and women find themselves at the mercy of their desires but at the will of their society. Psychologically
rich and astonishingly acute, Arresting God in Kathmandu introduces a potent new voice in contemporary fiction.