News from Nepal (Russian: «Вести из Непала») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1991.

The action of the story takes place as it seems at first glance in reality, but gradually the reader begins to understand that the world is actually a fiction.

The usual Soviet-era lifestyles of the protagonist, who works in the trolleybus park and runs errands for the director, are disrupted by strange events.

In the memo, Pelevin describes a kind of socialist paradise that the author believes is taking shape in the minds of some Soviet citizens.

[10] In the story "News from Nepal" the author sneers at the Soviet reality, which has become for the characters a horrible dream, close to hell.