Palpasa Cafe by Narayan Wagley EnglishPalpasa Caf tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9 11. It is often called an anti war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.