The review is a little dated but copied below all the same.
Source: The New York Times -
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/books/review/05dixler.html?ex=1144468800&en=0a141b43359f7f7a&ei=5070 ********************************
THE ROYAL GHOSTS: Stories. By Samrat Upadhyay. (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, paper, $12.)
The name Chekhov often cropped up in reviews of Upadhyay's novel, "The Guru of Love," and his previous short story collection, "Arresting God in Kathmandu." This new collection makes it easy to see why. Upadhyay, a native of Nepal who now lives in the United States, writes about his middle-class Nepalese characters with humor and compassion, focusing on concerns about familial and social obligations and the tension between tradition and modernity. The Maoist insurgency that has raged in Nepal for a decade is never far away, and the region's tense politics have a way of filtering into even the most personal dramas. This is particularly true in the powerful title story, which follows a lonely, embittered taxi driver around Katmandu on the day in 2001 that Nepal's crown prince murdered his family and committed suicide. As the taxi driver struggles with his recent discovery that his beloved brother is gay, his inner turmoil finds tragic echoes in the family drama taking place in the palace.
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