Planned novel summaries -- Part II

The shiva series:

Shiva gives responsibility-free life in the West a try, unsuccessfully

After millions of years of living in the East, in the Himalayas, Shiva, the destroyer of the worlds, the wearer of the Ganga, the fierce one, the braided one, decides to change things a bit by living in Northern Maine. In his human form as an ageless college student, he hints at his true identity to those close to him, undermining the legitimacy of his experience. His Gana comes in searching for him, seeking his assistance in saving the Universe from major catastrophe as he tries to avoid all matters cosmic and appreciate a true unadulterated modern human experience for the first time. He has to chose either directly interfering in human matters breaking his age-old rule, or let the people he spent many enjoyable years to suffer through a terrible calamity, while fighting the fores that threaten to undermine the inner workings of cosmic operation and the very existence of eternal beings. He must do it all, and make it on time for the Division III basketball team practice.

Appointments and Disappointments:

A Kathmandu girl discovers the city, and herself, in her gap year.

UNNAMED_CHARACTER(UC) gets a guy friend, a nice blue bong, goes on solo adventures and discovers what it means to be by yourself for the first time. On a (her first) hiking trip she gets trapped (between two massive deadly landslides) in the mountains (two) days before a final exam paper, a miss that could waste a year. She goes through rough times when she discovers all her friends will be going abroad, and she might not be able to. After her encouraging supervisor at work quits to join a competitor, her job is threatened (later the replacement banishes her to writing numbing press-release coverage). She gets dragged into a celebrity affair as the first one to (unwittingly) bring it into public notice. Her (first) attempt to have sex with her partner ends up in frustration and embarrassment. Everyone is sad gloomy depressed for weeks preceding their departure to foreign lands for college, plans are made --unconvincingly-- to meet up in the breaks.

Hiranya story:

A rag-tag group of friends survives yet another challenging year in their boarding school

I've already plotted the crap out of this one, don't want to summarize this because honestly I've been doing this for far too long today and it's not fun anymore. I've got the plot, just need to summarize it here.

Palpasa story:

A man reconstructs his friend's final few weeks to identify her assassin

 

A friend of Palpasa reminisces about Palpasa's final days as she went into the territory of the rebels fighting against the single-party communist regime. He decides to follow her trail with sufficient firepower, identify her murders and bring them to justice. He discovers that the various lose threads don't amount to a proper story, that the narrative of her and her artist boyfriend's death is complete fabrication. After surviving close encounters with armed groups on both sides, he meets the only man who can give him the full story, the way it really happened. He goes through a crisis of faith after the conversation, deciding to abandon his quest and go back to his day job. The reader is left to evaluate his decision, against the evidence available.

Two of a kind:

A young Kathmandu reporter has to live with an exact clone of himself

 

Honestly this is not really well-formed and I only wrote a couple of thousand words on it that went nowhere and now we already have Living with yourself Netflix series that plays with 100% the same context much better than I could ever have so I'm holding this off until I come up with some legitimately good idea to carry it.

Link to part 1:
https://yuppyuppyupp.blogspot.com/2019/12/planned-novel-summaries-part-i.html

Link to the summaries here:
https://yuppyuppyupp.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-bunch-of-one-sentence-summaries-for.html

Planning document:
https://yuppyuppyupp.blogspot.com/2019/12/playing-around-with-snowflake-method-of.html