♥ LOVE & DEATH IN KATHMANDU ~ Royal Murder ~ WILLESEE ♥

LOVE & DEATH IN KATHMANDU

Amy Willesee
Mark Whittaker

A STRANGE TALE OF ROYAL MURDER

Draws on interviews with a wide range of sources to reconstruct the events of the 2001 murder/suicide of crown prince Dipendra of Nepal and his family over their apparent disapproval of the woman he loved, in an analysis that also offers insight into the region's struggles to reconcile feudalism and modernity. Australian authors Willesee and Whittaker's exploration of Nepalese Crown Prince Diprenda's killing of his family and himself in 2001 wisely provides as much insight into Nepalese culture as the crime itself. It also, after a promising start, becomes bogged down in a litany of royal family names and confusing relationships, which, admittedly, it might be beyond any writer to make sense of to a general reader. This failing aside, however, the book is an entertaining read. The crown prince's frustration at being 29 and not yet married, the queen's frustration with the prince for choosing a woman she believed unsuitable, and a myriad of other personal pressures are described against the backdrop of a country literally torn between progress and the past. Perhaps the oddest fact revealed is that before the crown prince died of his self-inflicted injuries, he was proclaimed the king. If the crown prince had not died, he would have ruled Nepal rather than been arrested for his crimes. The authors do an excellent job of showing how a web of tradition, local superstitions and a legacy of bloodshed helped sanction the prince's actions. From child brides to child goddesses, from Maoist rebels to drug smuggling, the book is full of compelling snapshots of Nepalese life. In June 2001 a member of Nepal's royal family, Crown Prince Dipendra, gunned down his parents, the king and queen, his brother and sister, and (in the authors' words) "a collection of aunts and uncles." Then he killed himself. It was an event that shocked the country and the world, in part because of its violence and in part because of its motive: as near as anyone could tell, Dipendra murdered his family because they didn't approve of the woman he intended to marry. In this well-researched account of the tragedy and the events leading up to the crown prince's desperate act, the authors delve deep into the history, politics, and social structure of the country. They uncover a drama as poignant as any a novelist could create--a love story that led to murder. For true-crime aficionados and followers of the troubled history of Nepal d

 

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