Mad Country July015 "-The New York Times

"-The New York Times

BIG NATE IS GOING TO MAKE YOU LAUGH

When the crime is committed in spite of Poirot's best efforts to stop it

adding to the frying pan's allure

Mad Country July015 "-The New York TimesIf you see Orwell and Kafka together walking down a street, you are in the world of Samrat Upadhyay's Mad Country. The editor of an investigative magazine contends with the trauma of a disappeared colleague, a political tragedy that vies for her attention with a more domestic crisis: a friend who's suicidal over a divorce. An American hippie in Kathmandu in the 1980s undergoes a drastic identity change, only to discover that the metamorphosis brings