Well madam, here is a part of a review in English if you are interested. Unfortunately it's long. - http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue256/review.htm ----In the first chapter, Narayan Wagle the author and protagonist gives us a hint about why he is writing the book. As he takes dictation from a district reporter about another firefight in the mountains, he thinks: ?Nothing new here. Every day it is the same. Tomorrow?s paper will be the same as this morning?s. The same stories of an army patrol being ambushed, suspected spy executed by Maoists, a bomb going off somewhere. We are just chroniclers of carnage.? The storyline weaves the fragile and undeclared love between Drishya and Palpasa, a first-generation American Nepali who has returned to the land of her parents after being unable to take post-9/11 racism, into the artist?s reunion with his school friend, Siddhartha, who is now a guerrilla. Siddhartha comes to Kathmandu in the aftermath of the royal massacre to seek shelter in Drishya?s house, the two argue over whether the goals of revolution justify the means. ?How can you ever justify violence?? Drishya asks. Siddhartha replies: ?Without destroying you can?t build anew.? ?But people are dying,? Drishya pleads. ?The people don?t need peace, they need justice,? says his Maoist friend, ?If there is justice there will be peace.? ?But you are carrying out injustices in the name of justice,? says Drishya one last time but it is clear the two can?t even agree to disagree. Drishya travels to his home village to meet Siddhartha and finds it torn apart by war. They are all there in these pages: the atrocities, executions, disappearances and people caught in the crossfire that we read about every day in the newspapers. But because they happen to characters we now know intimately the incidents seem more real than the factual headlines. That is the power of fiction. Not only is this novel as fresh as an open wound, the author?s imagination makes Nepal?s real unfolding tragedy come alive with raw urgency. The plot is rendered in non-linear style that is experimental in the world of Nepali fiction. Wagle?s Nepali is simple, colloquial and his voice is genuine and sincere. Drishya comes across sometimes as being unnecessarily abrasive, but Palpasa is an authentic diaspora daughter caught between love for her motherland and alienation from her adopted home.---