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Product Description A Sadhu predicts the end of the world. As the East and the West come together, a young boy longs to taste cheese. A monsoon thunderstorm awakens memories of a flood. A young man returns from India and encounters the new Buddha. And a hungry policeman steals some vegetable. Amidst desire, longing and the awareness of suffering, these stories ask the common question: what is the nature of existence? Why do we suffer? Can we ever fulfill the hunger of the human heart? Review What makes the End of the World stand out as a collection of short stories in Joshi's masterful and elegant use of language... a confident debut collection for Joshi, in which the deceptively simple exterior of her prose peels away to reveal multiple layers of investigation into human longing and emptiness. --The Kathmandu Post About the Author Sushma Joshi is a writer and filmmaker from Kathmandu, Nepal. She ahs a bachelor's degree in international relations from Brown University. She also has an MA in English Literature from MIddlebury College, Vermont, and an MA in cultural anthropology from New School for Social Research, New York. Joshi contributes "The Global and the Local," a widely read op-ed for the Sunday edition of the Kathmandu Post. She has also written "Art Matters", a book of essays about contemporary art in Kathmandu. Her short films have been screened at the Berlinale's Talent Campus, on CNN International, and other film festivals in the USA, Europe, Asia and Australia.