Karnali Blues

Karnali Blues (कर्नाली ब्लुज)

Author	Buddhi Sagar
Original title	कर्नाली ब्लुज
Working title	कर्नाली ब्लुज
Cover artist	Niraj Bhari and Subarna Humagai
Language	Nepali
Published	FinePrint
Pages	400
ISBN	9789937827935

Karnali Blues (कर्नाली ब्लुज) is book written by Buddhi Sagar and published by FinePrint publication, Nepal.

Karnali Blues is an epic story about a young boy who travels to different phases of his life, with his parents. The story's main plot focuses on the character's father who develops in our own spirits by the layers of Buddhisagar's writing. We are made to see the character's father from different angles: from being strict to loving. Though the main character is the father, the writer also adds a major chunk of his life into it while holding the story and binding it together with several in-and-out characters like Parvati Didi, Ekraj, Mamata Didi, Sharmila, Chandre, Bhagiram, Batu, Sadham, Mandire, Ramesh, Shiva Shankar etc. The story contains the naughtiness of childhood that are hilarious as well as moments of heart-breaking chapters that will keep you wanting more of Buddhisagar's easy words and perfectly structured sentences.

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Plot

Karnali Blues is an epic story about a young boy who travels to different phases of his life; with his parents. The story's main plot focuses on the character's father who develops in our own spirits by the layers of Buddhisagar's writing. We are made to see the character's father from different angles: from being strict to loving. Though the main character is the father, the writer also adds a major chunk of his life into it while holding the story and binding it together with several in-and-out characters like Parvati Didi, Ekraj, Mamata Didi, Sharmila, Chandre, Bhagiram, Batu, Sadham, Mandire, Ramesh, Shiva Shankar etc. The story contains the naughtiness of childhood that are hilarious as well as moments of heart-breaking chapters that will keep you wanting more of Buddhisagar's easy words and perfectly structured sentences. The story starts slow but adds andrenaline to the latter part of the plot and ends rather on a high note that will provide you with intimate satisfaction as well making you want more of Buddhisagar's novels and literature. A truly hats-off debut book, I must say.

The sentences are short and the words are simple but the impact is deep. The novel is realistic, and not decorated by the fancy words which makes novel easy to understand and fun to read. The story's plot can be divided into two parts, one in which the narrator is young and he consider his father as an amazing person, In second plot narrator's father is in him death bed fighting to death.

Reviews

“Karnali Blues” is a rare Nepali novel that has almost totally displaced Sanskrit in its narratives. There are no speechifying politicians and pseudo-intellectuals in the book, nor development gurus and social workers and other dollar farmers waxing their lingo and lacing their reports with mind-blowing idiotic idioms. The settlements’ carpetbaggers don’t fuss with Sanskrit. Rather, the pages have local Tharu dialects of Bhagi Ram, west Nepal’s guttural expressions delivered by Brisha’s mother, and the Kumaon-Garhwal-Khasan-Sinjali vernacular of Nepali spoken by Jarilal in Kalikot. These variations are Nepal’s very own, and readers will enjoy deciphering their nuances.

- Abhinav Chalise

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