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"Narayan Wagle is one of Nepal's foremost editors. During his journalistic career spanning two decades, he has travelled to many regions on reporting assignments, much of it on foot. He has had a ringside seat of the dramatic political transformation of the country as it turned from a monarchy to a republic, and went from war to peace. His first novel, Palpasa Café, originally published in Nepali in 2005, won that year's most prestigious literary award, Madan Puraskar, and went on to become a runaway bestseller with more than 50,000 copies sold. The English edition of the novel was first published in Nepal in 2008 and later by Random House India. It has also been published in Korean, French and Sinhalese languages. Wagle's second novel, Mayur Times published in 2010 was also well received." '...a powerful anti-war novel that will be read and talked about for years. It drags us beyond Shangri-La and forces us to look at the abyss below.' - Nepali Times 'A clever and original novel set amid the death and fear of the Maoist guerrilla war in Nepal.' - Independent The novel revolves around the two central characters, Drishya and Palpasa, mostly moving along with its male protagonist. It is the story of an artist Drishya during the height of the civil war in Nepal. It is a part love story as well. It dwells, not only, into the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that the male protagonist travels to, but also takes about the blooming love between Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa.
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Palpasa Café tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to. नारायण वाग्ले २०४७ सालपछिको फराकिलो परिवेशमा पत्रकार बने । समाचारका लागि देशका धेरै भेग घुमे, समाजका सङ्कटहरू नियाले | कान्तिपुर दैनिकमा स्थापनाकालदेखि संलग्न उनले पुनः सक्रिय राजतन्त्रदेखि गणतन्त्र स्थापनासम्मको घटनापूर्ण अवधिमा सम्पादकीय नेतृत्व गरे । यो उनको पहिलो उपन्यास हो । माओवादी द्धन्द्ध उत्कर्षताक प्रकाशित यसले २०६१ सालको मदन पुरस्कार पाएको थियो । चर्चा र बिक्रीका हिसाबले यसलाई नेपाली साहित्य प्रकाशन इतिहासमा एउटा मोड मानिएको छ । हालसम्म यो चारवटा विदेशी भाषामा प्रकाशित भइसकेको छ । यसको अङ्ग्रेजी संस्करण सन् २००८ मा काठमाडौंबाट छापिएको थियो, जसलाई पछि यान्डम हाउस इन्डियाले नयाँ दिल्लीबाट छाप्यो, कोरियाली भाषामा सोलबाट फरेस्ट अफ लिटरेचरले साथै सिंधली भाषामा श्रीलंकाबाट पनि प्रकाशित छ । यसको प्रान्सेली अनुवाद सन् २०१४ मा पब्लिकेसन नेपा-लयले छापेको छ । पल्पसा क्याफेले नेपाली साहित्यमा एउटा तरङ्ग ल्याएको छ । पात्रहरूमध्ये एउटी बालिकाको सानो कथा मात्रले पनि यो उपन्यास अमर बनेको छ । - इन्द्रबहादुर राई