Chettri, Lil Bahadur  <br/><br/>
Mountains painted with turmeric 

 - New York:  Columbia University Press,  2008. 
 - xxi, 123 p.;  hb;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> Tale of a young Nepali peasant farmer's run of bad luck. Dhan Dhan? Bahadur Basnet, 25, strives to support himself; his wife, Maina; a small son; and his teenage sister, Jhumavati, and buys a buffalo on interest from a moneylender to help plant his family plot. But the buffalo's calf dies, then the buffalo rampages a neighboring field, leaving Dhan? responsible for damages. To pay off the debt, Dhan? agrees to work another farmer's fields and offers his home and land as security. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231143561 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Families<br/>Fiction<br/>Nepali Fiction<br/>Social Acceptance<br/>World Contemporary Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>891.4953  / CHE