{"id":7353,"date":"2021-06-15T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=7353"},"modified":"2021-06-15T16:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:56:21","slug":"nayan-raj-pandeys-new-collection-of-stories-jiyara-hits-the-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/06\/15\/nayan-raj-pandeys-new-collection-of-stories-jiyara-hits-the-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Nayan Raj Pandey\u2019s new collection of stories, Jiyara, hits the shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: Jiyara, a new anthology of stories by Nayan Raj Pandey, is now out in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jiyara is a collection of 13 stories. The stories are mostly set in the Madhesh, also the setting of Pandey\u2019s two critically-acclaimed novels, Loo, and Ular, an English translation of which is reportedly in the works. In Jiyara, Pandey combines reality and myth to tell his stories which document political corruption, patriarchy and offer a critique of capitalism, according to publisher Ajit Baral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandey is one of the foremost contemporary Nepali authors who writes novels, stories and screenplays, primarily in the social realism genre. But in the new collection, Pandey has veered away from strict realism and into a \u201cnew, experimental mode of storytelling\u201d, says a press release released by publisher Fineprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have tried to create a distinct atmosphere for each of my stories where one can find multiple avatars of the same character, multiple plots in the same story, and multiple settings,\u201d Pandey said. \u201cThe readers can expect to find themselves in a carousel following the characters to different dimensions in time and space. The characters aren\u2019t rigid, nor are their arcs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was previously slated for release in April but was postponed due to the second wave of the pandemic and the lockdown, according to the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has recently decided to allow bookshops to operate till 11 am from June 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandey said that he is \u201cexcited\u201d about the book\u2019s release: &#8220;No matter how many books an author writes, he is excited when his new book is published, and so I&#8217;m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith each new novel, I find my style inevitably changing,\u201d Pandey added. \u201cI have tried to deal with societal injustice in my stories, seeking to portray the birth and evolution of resistance in my characters\u2019 consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Jiyara, a new anthology of stories by Nayan Raj Pandey, is now out in the market. Jiyara is a collection of 13 stories. The stories are mostly set in the Madhesh, also the setting of Pandey\u2019s two critically-acclaimed novels, Loo, and Ular, an English translation of which is reportedly in the works. In Jiyara, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-arts"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/jiyara-3d-cover-1.png?fit=1280%2C783&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-1UB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}