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Beautiful People by Pradeep Swar is a fast moving story that carries us across continents. It is a story of two families totally unknown to each other and coming from separate cultures. It is the tale of how their fortunes came to cross paths in the High Himalayan and the dusty plains of North India. The story carries us over a period of almost two decades and tells us to the varying fortunes of our two families whose second generation comes together as students in the Eastern Hill station of Darjeeling, the famed tea producing centre. The underlying current of terrorism and the activities of the crime nexus bring us back to the stark realities of the present day world where none are truly secure and can never know when violence may strike.

At time, the realization comes as a result. The path to finding that result may be very rugged and evil may strew its way in the very familiar form of violence, but howsoever bad the case may be, all seems good if at the end, the result is good.

It is a wonder and a miracle if something, even a little good thing comes out of a violent and inhumane behavior. That result is then beautiful.

Such is the case with Omar. A driven and orthodox mastermind he is, who will stop at nothing until he gets his vengeance. And he is going to use anything and anyone to claim it and will wipe out anything and anyone on his path to get it.

Then, there are the other people. Those everyday people who live an undistributed life and who are suddenly entangled in this tumultuous chain of threatening events.  “The strife of humanity is when a human uses another wrongly.” But evil has power and so does innocence and these clash to bring out an eye-opening truth in front of our eyes. That it is a beautiful world filled with beautiful people.

Title: Beautiful People

Author: Pradeep Swar

Edition: First Edition

Cover: Paperback

Subject: Fiction

Pages: 225

Size (mm): 140 x217

Weight (grams):260

Price: US$ 8.75

Pradeep Swar, 19, is a young and promising young Nepali author wrote this story at the tender age of 16. He himself was a student in Darjeeling has used much of his own personal experience of the region to give depth and interest to his first full length novel.

By Matthew Bruce

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