Three Nepali Novels and Anxiety of Influence: Pempa Tamang “ Palpasaa Cafe ” (2005) with its best seller tag having sold 5000 copies in two days, which is a record in Nepali publishing history, the best thing was to read as soon as possible and see for oneself what really was it about. Once I could lay my hands on it I could hardly resist reading it through its last page and rereading it again to internalize the wonder and the spectacle that it presents of the world of present day Nepal and its plights. While reading this amazing book the memories of another popular book “ Forget Kathmandu ” by Manjushri Thapa kept haunting me. “Forget Kathmandu” is a nonfiction, a journalistic writing, a history writing as it is happening, a memorabilia. “Palpasaa..” is a fiction but it comes out with abundance of travails of rural people that Manjushree Thapa failed to see it in her travel through the rugged rural panorama of hills of eastern Nepal or may be fictional mode provides more freedo...
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