nepalikochoro ji, If I am correct, the book you are talking about is Palpasa Caf?, journalist Narayan Wagle's (no personal relation with me) debut novel. The book is available throughout the country from Tuesday, July 26 and is available on United We Blog! ( http://www.blog.com.np/index.php?p=742 ) on sale for those who live outside Nepal. The book, according to Nepali Times, is a fictionalised account of some actual events, the lives and deaths of ordinary Nepalis caught in the vice of war. In the first chapter, Narayan makes a cameo as himself, the editor of a paper in Kathmandu who hears of the abduction of a friend by soldiers. "That much is fact but in the next chapter Narayan turns his disappeared friend into an imaginary artist named Drishya and the rest of the book is his story told in the artist?s own voice. The author admits that much of what Drishya goes through are semi-autobiographical."