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Gaurika: a Heroine of Crisis
Chandra Kumar Phuyal is an emerging writer of Nepali English literature. His novel Gaurika throws light on the life of Nepalese people in hill villages, country youths going to work in foreign lands, basically to the Gulf countries where the work is tough and risky, their families in trouble in the country back home, and some notable reparations and reunions in the end. Mr. Phuyal minutely focuses on the human sensibilities which evoke the feeling of love and emotion in the very realistic setting. Through all the development of the story, his experience speaks. The novel itself is a wonderful experiment of life diverging apart and finally converging to a circular form.
111 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 8, 2020
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October 31, 2025
The book has it's moments as well as it's errors.
For the positives I loved the introduction to various aspects of Nepal culture, the setting as well as the use of language in the story. I also absolutely love the moral the story is trying to convey.
On the negatives I feel like the story tries too much to tell instead of show. The story feels like someone telling me a story instead of me experiencing the story with the characters
Another issue I had was with the story was the definitions. The author has tried teach the meanings of some of the more complex words by including them in the story which I personally feel hampers the pacing and flow of the story. I feel a better idea would've been to include these words as a glossary page at the end of the book as done by various other books.
All in all an enjoyable story about brain drain which has been one of the major issues of our country
For the positives I loved the introduction to various aspects of Nepal culture, the setting as well as the use of language in the story. I also absolutely love the moral the story is trying to convey.
On the negatives I feel like the story tries too much to tell instead of show. The story feels like someone telling me a story instead of me experiencing the story with the characters
Another issue I had was with the story was the definitions. The author has tried teach the meanings of some of the more complex words by including them in the story which I personally feel hampers the pacing and flow of the story. I feel a better idea would've been to include these words as a glossary page at the end of the book as done by various other books.
All in all an enjoyable story about brain drain which has been one of the major issues of our country
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