Narayan Wagle

Palpasa Cafe was Wagle's first book, published in Nepali in 2005, and subsequently translated into English, Korean and French.

It tells the story of an artist, Drishya, who goes trekking in the Nepali countryside in the midst of the Nepalese Civil War.

It was a best seller and acclaimed for bringing the realities of the Nepalese Civil War to the public in a way journalism had failed to.

It is a fictional narration of how journalists are caught in the crossfire, written from the perspective of a small-town newspaper in the Terai region of Nepal.

Like its predecessor, Mayur Times sold moderately in Nepal but met with mixed reviews.