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City of Dreams (short story collection)

2015 book by Pranaya SJB Rana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ109927643 ↗
Source-derived summary

City of Dream: Stories is an anthology of short stories by Pranaya SJB Rana. It was published in 2015 by Rupa Publications. It is the first book by Rana, who is a Nepalese journalist and writer.

Synopsis

The stories are set in and around Kathmandu city. The stories included in the anthology are:

City of Dreams

The Smoker

Dashain

Our Ruin

Two

Maya

Knife in the Water

The Red Kurta

The Presence of God

The Child

Reception

The collection was favorably reviewed in Nepal with one review calling Rana "a bold writer, willing to push against the boundaries of what we might have come to expect of South Asian writers".

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “City of Dreams (short story collection)” as 2015 book by Pranaya SJB Rana. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where City, Dreams and short can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2015 book by Pranaya SJB Rana. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109927643. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “City of Dreams (short story collection)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.