Muna Madan: A Play in the Jhyaure Folk Tradition [Paperback] Laxmi Prasad Devkota [Paperback]

I am not qualified to review Laxmi Prasad Devkota but I would comment on the translation. Ananda Shrestha has worked very hard and painfully to translate the poem into English, he retained all the elegance of poetry as well as rhyme. I could see his hardwork and really felt his dedication to retain the beauty. I am really happy.

The book entitled munamada describes the life of a poor society of rural area of Nepal madan the main and the most important character of the book represent all the youths of Nepal who go to abroad to earn money or to earn their living madan is such a character who is compelled of the problem of unemployment and poverty his newly married wife muna is the queen of the love and sacrifice she loves madan a lot so she is upset as she has to send him to lhase where there are lots of obstacles and risks but finally she accepts all the challenges and stays home with her mother in-law who is old and weak the story also show the life of a poor woman who suffered much without her husband and later dies because of a grifVihaan Jain5B40

MUNA MADAN: A Play in the Jhyaure Folk Tradition, by Laxmi Prasad Devkota is beautifully translated into English from the Nepali, by Ananda P. Shrestha in this little book in the Nirala Poetry Series.The play weaves a moving tale of Madan who goes to Lhasa to earn an honest dream of bedecking his beloved wife, Muna, with ornaments of gold and of fulfilling the final wishes of his ailing mother. But on his return home, Madan falls sick. Drama then unfolds, depicting the agony of a human life caught in the twilight of dreaming and knowing.The Foreword, by Yuyutsu R.D., calls this play "...a story of migration, of a movement outside the vale of mind, the geo-political compulsion of moving out to labour and come back to live to the rhythm of the Himalayan Hills."Laxmi Prasad Devkota is the father figure in the literary arena of Nepal, the one who made Nepali poetry popular among the Nepalese masses and gave the poet the status of a legend.