Weekly picks

The Confession

By John Grisham

Rs 478

For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, he abducted, raped, and strangled a high school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrested and convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched him off to death row. Now nine years have passed.

Travis has just been paroled for a different crime; Donté is four days away from his execution. Travis suffers from an inoperable brain tumor. For the first time in his life, he decides to do what’s right and confess. An innocent man is about to be executed. Only a guilty man can save him.

Studies in Nepali History and Society Vo.14. No.2

Edited by Pratyoush Onta, Mark Liechty, Seira Tamang and Tatsuro Fujikura

Rs 300

Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS) is a semi-annual publication of the Centre for Social Research and Development and Martin Chautari.

This volume includes articles on politics of land reform, future of Nepali identity, independent radio and public engagement, Civic engagement and deliberative governance: The case of Community Forest Users’ Federation, 50 years of French anthropology in Nepal, commentaries on Constituent Assembly update, the life and work of John K. Locke, scholar of Newars and book reviews of Sushma Joshi’s The end of the world, Marcella Sirhandi’s Royal Nepal through the Lens of Richard Gordon Matzene and Michael Wilmore’s Developing Alternative Media Traditions in Nepal.

Ending the Vietnam War

By Henry Kissinger

Rs 640

“This book deals with the way the United States ended its involvement in the longest war in its history.” The opening line of this book is as unambiguous as its title. Kissinger was, of course, President Nixon’s national security advisor, later his secretary of state, and is currently an academic and author.

In fact, Kissinger’s latest book is really a selection of chapters gathered from four previous books, which he has rearranged and somewhat rewritten. In this insider book par excellence, Kissinger keeps fairly, if not wholly, grounded in objectivity as he records and interprets events in this “black hole of American historical memory.”

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