From The Streets of Kathmandu by Basu Rai

From The Streets of Kathmandu by Basu RaiA little boy climbs down the stairs and runs out of his house. Most little ones do that. But this little boy has no one to stop him. He does not have a name. He only has the memory of a story his father has told him over and over again, from the time he was just six months old until his dying day, when the child was about four years old. It is the story of his father's love affair with his mother and betrayal. From the streets of Kathmandu, this is

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where the narrator's imagination wanders as he roams through the seedier parts of the darkened town instead of guarding the school buildings

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