When he was a child, poet Chandra Gurung left his native Nepal to attend school in northern India. His father was a soldier in the Indian army, and the boy’s school was near where his father was stationed. While it was an opportunity for his education, it was also a separation from his village and his family.
Those themes of opportunity and separation resonate through the 47 poems of My Father’s Face, written originally in Nepali and translated into English by Mahesh Paudyal. The poems reflect the seeming contradictions of hope and regret, love and loss, patriotism and resistance, and a longing for home and the almost welcomed separation from it.
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