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Palpasa Café

Palpasa Café

Narayan Wagle
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A journalist sits in a café waiting for his subject—an artist called Drishya about whom he wants to write a novel. But Drishya doesn’t come. For that morning he has been visited by Maoists at his home and abducted by them…

So begins Palpasa Café, the extraordinary novel by Nepali journalist Narayan Wagle, which has become a sensation in the country. Starting with the murders of the royal family, it tells the troubled story of contemporary Nepal through the eyes of a romantic artist who falls in love, wanders the war-struck countryside and dreams of creating a café named after his beloved which serves the best coffee in the country.

Playful, moving and melancholic, fusing the boundaries between fiction and non fiction, Palpasa Café presents a rare picture of Nepal at war. It is one of the most important novels to come out of the country.

Imprint: Ebury Press

Published: Dec/2011

ISBN: 9788184001426

Length : 264 Pages

MRP : ₹299.00

Palpasa Café

Narayan Wagle

A journalist sits in a café waiting for his subject—an artist called Drishya about whom he wants to write a novel. But Drishya doesn’t come. For that morning he has been visited by Maoists at his home and abducted by them…

So begins Palpasa Café, the extraordinary novel by Nepali journalist Narayan Wagle, which has become a sensation in the country. Starting with the murders of the royal family, it tells the troubled story of contemporary Nepal through the eyes of a romantic artist who falls in love, wanders the war-struck countryside and dreams of creating a café named after his beloved which serves the best coffee in the country.

Playful, moving and melancholic, fusing the boundaries between fiction and non fiction, Palpasa Café presents a rare picture of Nepal at war. It is one of the most important novels to come out of the country.

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Narayan Wagle

Narayan Wagle is an acclaimed journalist and was the editor of Kantipur Daily, Nepal's largest circulating newspaper. Palpasa Café, his first novel, was published in 2005 and became a bestseller, selling over 40,000 copies and winning the Madan Puraskar, Nepal's most prestigious literary prize. It was translated into English in 2008. Narayan Wagle lives in Kathmandu.

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