A New York Times Notable Book: ';A ravishingly seductive novel… set in contemporary Kathmandu' (Elle). Ramchandra is a math teacher earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and two children. Moonlighting as a tutor, he engages in an illicit affair with one of his tutees, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished teenager, who is also a new mother. She provides for him what his wife, who comes from a privileged background, does not: desire, mystery, and a simpler life. Just as this Nepalese city struggles with the conflicts of change, Ramchandra must also learn to accommodate both tradition and his very modern desires, in this ';gripping' novel by the Whiting Awardwinning author of Buddha's Orphans (The New York Times Book Review). ';Utterly absorbing… Upadhyay's lucent and tender storytelling gently unveils the strange interplay between self and family, the private and the political, and most mysteriously, the erotic and the spiritual.' Booklist ';Poignant… The Guru of Love effectively weaves together the complicated dichotomies of man and mistress, love and lust, tradition and modernity.' USA Today ';Reads like a graceful, page-turning mixture of stirring romance and social commentary.' Entertainment Weekly
