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Tāpa, the debut novel of Sharada Sharma, though it is the winner of Padmaśrī Sāhitya Sammāna 2012, is an underrated Nepali novel. The novel forms a part of my Ph.D. Dissertation. I chose Sharma as a representative woman novelist in Nepali literature. I was impressed by the narrative techniques and characterization in the novel. The author has chosen characters from diver backgrounds to highlight the theme of humans' sufferings. The characters are portrayed as particular individuals and have unique experiences of life. Nonetheless, they all, in one way or another, suffer in their lives. To impart this message, she uses multiple narrators and handle them skillfully. So far as my reading of Nepali novels is concerned, I was dismayed by the fact that the novel has failed to gain a satisfactory readership from the readers of Nepali literature. One of the aims of my Ph.D. thesis was to analyze the narrative techniques of the selected novels. I found Sharma's skills in handling multiple narrators quite praiseworthy. She uses multiple narrators to reveal the multiple perspectives of the characters who belong to different socio-political, economic, educational, and geographical background. It shows her understanding of human psychology. Likewise, the flashback and foreshowing techniques are aptly used to relate the events that happen in different periods. The techniques provide the necessary information to the readers. In terms of characterization, also she appears skillful. Most of the characters sound authentic. Set primarily in monasteries, and in āśramas in and around the Kathmandu Valley, some of the incidents of the novel, however, take place in India, England, and partially in Dhaka. The narrative of the novel goes back to the Rana Dynasty and deals up to the events that happened during the Maoist Insurgency of Nepal, covering more than a hundred years. However, the main plot of the novel relates to the events that occur within the fifty years of its main protagonist, Chandrika Maharani’s life. The novel explores the failed marital and family lives of its protagonist. It traces the worries and tensions that she has to bear despite her economic affluence and intellectual integrity.

Tāpa as an Underrated Nepali Novel (Book Review)