TY - GEN AU - Chettri, Lil Bahadur AU - Hutt, Michael J. (Translator) TI - Mountains painted with turmeric SN - 9780231143561 U1 - 891.4953 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Nepali Fiction KW - Social Acceptance KW - World Contemporary Fiction N2 - 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 ER -