Sumnima-Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

Author: Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala
Publisher: Sajha Prakashan
First Publish Year: 2010 BS
Language: Nepali
Genre: Novel

B P Koirala, a former Prime Minister of Nepal is about the painful complications that arise in a man-woman relationship. The story is about the powerful attraction that exists between a Brahmin boy “Somdutta” and an ordinary Kirati girl “Sumnima”. His unexpressed love for Sumnima haunts Somdutta till the end of his life. He comes to think that the sacred education, which was supposed to be a ladder to salvation and austerity, kept him from true happiness and actually experiencing life. He realizes that the false line drawn by religion separates the community into castes, classes and many other divisions. The novel depicts how the restriction of human desires and physical needs can all but ruin a person’s life.