Author : Narayan Wagle
Publisher : Publication Nepalaya
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9937905877
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.
Author : Narayan Wagle
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,11 MB
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8184002521
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.
Author : P Sachidanandan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8184757417
Murder is committed for its own sake in the three fictional episodes of The Book of Destruction. In ‘The Gardener’, the narrator learns from the thug Seshadri that he has been selected for assassination for no reason but the pure purpose of killing. A discotheque is bombed out of existence in ‘The Hotelier and the Traveller’. In the third episode, leading the narrator to an elaborately staged orgy and sacrifice, stitched clothes escape from a tailor’s shop and soar down the streets to take over bodies. The cruelty of killers and the wretchedness of victims are shifted to the margins as the novel focuses on the act of murder. In his inimitable style, Anand takes the mesmerized reader on a journey of three stages—the practice of killing, the sacrifice of the victim and the sacrifice of the sacrificer—before bringing the story of destruction to its finale.
Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551997185
Set in 1920s’ Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran’s powerful father, and threatens all on which Balendran has built his present life. Sensual, perceptive, and wise, Cinnamon Gardens is a novel of exceptional achievement—an exquisite tapestry of lives.
Author : Serafín Álvarez Quintero
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Man-woman relationships
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Author : Krishan Chandar
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Buddhisagar
Publisher : India Penguin Classics
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2022-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780670096602
Karnali Blues, by Buddhisagar, is the most widely read Nepali novel to have appeared in the last twenty years. As it recounts the evolution of a father-son relationship-a son's search for approval, a father's small acts of kindness and forgiveness, a son's fears for his father's dignity as his fortunes and faculties begin to fail-the reader is deeply drawn into young Brisha Bahadur's world. His father is kind and idealistic; his mother, though she is kind too, is often frustrated and irascible. The characters in this book are some of the most carefully drawn and authentic in all of Nepali literature. In a backwater district of a country about to undergo radical social, political and cultural change, Brisha's dreams, his games and his mischief, his loves, his hopes and his fears come alive. Translated from the Nepali by Michael Hutt, this highly original piece of work, with the simplicity of its language and its emotional range, holds the power to take your breath away. Its principal themes-the love between a son and his father, the joys and sorrows of childhood, the daily struggle for survival-are universal, and will resonate with readers the world over.
Author : Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1989
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ISBN :
Author : Aanchal Malhotra
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 178738120X
Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?
Author : Alison Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2007-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521039277
A major study of the Divine Comedy, this book offers an interesting perspective on Dante's representation of the afterlife. Alison Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante's place in relation to learned traditions by undertaking a thorough examination of the poem in the context of popular beliefs. Her principal sources are thus not the highly literary texts (such as Virgil's Aeneid or Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae) which have become a familiar context for the poem, but rather visions of the Other World found in popular writings, painting and sculpture from the centuries leading up to its composition. The book will be of interest to non-specialists in addition to scholars of Dante, since it offers a clear preliminary account of the Other World tradition, a chronology of its principal representations and summaries of the major texts. Fully illustrated throughout, it integrates with the literary and theological aspects of Dante's heritage the important but often neglected dimension of art history.
