Pathik Pravasan
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Pathik Pravasan is a travel novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 written by Nepal
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

ese author, Pancham Adhikary and published in 2010 by Jaya Prakashan.

It is considered a defining work of the maoist war period 'Nepalese young generation' that was inspired by rebellion, frustration and 'Go Abroad' experiences.
The novel is considered a milestone to Nepalese diaspora
Diaspora
A diaspora is "the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland" or "people dispersed by whatever cause to more than one location", or "people settled far from their ancestral homelands".The word has come to refer to historical mass-dispersions of...

 literature which is a realistic story to Neplaese students that go to study abroad, annually in large number.
The main character
Protagonist
A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...

 of the novel, Pathik, travel to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 to study, new world is totally different to a young boy grown-up in under-developed eastern world.

Basic Information

Genre - Diasporic novel

Release date - 2010

ISBN - 978-9937-2-2654-7 (Nepal)

Publisher - Jaya Prakashan, Kathmandu (Nepal)

Author - Pancham Adhikary

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