Palpasa Cafe Novel Analysis

Palpasa Cafe
Amisha Acharya
Eng 120 Norton Field Guide to Writing
Presidential Business School
Westcliff University
Mr. Kosh Raj Koirala
Professor: Ujeena Rana
February 5, 2018 Abstract
This analysis is based on the book named Palpasa Cafe by Narayan Wagle in 2005 and is honored by Madan Puraskar. The story of novel is an anti-war novel with the love between Drishya and American Nepali, Palpasa. The novel showed how people are suffering their life because of Maoist and the government. Romantic novels, books on war, thrillers are books of all kinds in which the lead characters were singers, soldiers. But I have never read the romantic novel set during the civil war in Nepal. I got chance to read the war love novel when I picked Narayan

Palpasa Café is the story of an artist and starts on the metafictional note. Before sending it for painting the narrator waits for his protagonist to show the manuscript. The narrator is a journalist who wrote a book about Drishya, a painter. He learns that Drishya has fallen in love with a Nepali American return, Palpasa. He sees that Drishya has been kidnapped by a group of Maoists.
Wagle firstly paints the disappearances and general tension of royal massacre, and the conflict in the hills. Palpasa Café observes the individual stories in many aspects of Nepal. For example internal migration for school and work, Nepali-foreigner, and Gurkhas.
The first chapter begins with Drishya meeting Palpasa, an American- Nepali concealing a dream of making a documentary in Goa. They both leave without exchange of their contact number. But the sparks between them are shared. Palpasa’s eyes description as fresh, juicy was in the first meeting of them. Later Drishya writes a letter to Palpasa along her grandma, saying “The happiest day of my life is when I saw you dancing. It was like the snow melting on mountains in the sun and horizontally rainbow

The story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War is highlighted in this novel. The novel is the love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after nine years. It is also an anti-war novel and describes the effects on the Nepali lifestyles. Also, present the effect faced by Drishya during his travels. This novel shows the tourchered and troubled faced by Nepali citizens gave by the Maoist and the government and reflects the dead bodies of people who used to die without any reason.
The novel, Palpasa café by Wagle was first published in 2005. The book was a best seller in Nepal, selling 25,000 copies in the first year. It was the first book of Wagle. The book has received many honors including the highly prestigious literary award in Nepal, Madan Puraskar since its release. The book was originally written in Nepali, and later it was translated into English and Korean. On July 2012, the book has sold over 52,000 copies.
Youth doing something in his own native land through the political status of the country was in the bad condition and was no security for the people. Love and care of young generation people to old aged people is clearly shown in the novel. Though his friend Siddhartha is on the Maoist side he saved the life of Drishya, which shows friendship greater though the person is doing badly. These are the points which