Palpasa Cafe (Nepali:पल्पसा क्याफे) is a novel by Nepali author Narayan Wagle. It 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 &lt;a href="September%2011%20Attacks"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt;. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.