[4][5] Kabimo, a writer from Kalimpong district, is the winner of the Yuva Puraskar for Nepali language 2018 for 1986—a short story collection centering around the Gorkhaland movement issue.

Kabimo belongs to the Lepcha community, an ethnic group indigenous to eastern Nepal, Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Sikkim region.

One day, the narrator receives the news Norden's death in a recent earthquake and decides to go back to his hometown in rural part of Nepali speaking region of West Bengal.

[7] Charisma K. Lepcha in her review of the Nepali edition for Harvard–Yenching Institute wrote, “Written in a Darjeelingay style of Nepali, Kabimu’s voice is fresh and modern bringing back poignant memories of an era gone by.”[8] Chitra Ahanthem in her review for Scroll.in of the English translation praised the book for its political and personal intimacy saying, “...it breathes an intimacy into fiction that is both political and personal.”.

The novel was translated from Nepali to Hindi by Namrata Chaturvedi, an English literature professor at Zakir Husain Delhi College.