{"id":3785,"date":"2024-06-17T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2024-06-17T16:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T10:21:58","slug":"rowena-grubbly-the-tale-of-queen-astren-a-novel-by-10th-grader-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/rowena-grubbly-the-tale-of-queen-astren-a-novel-by-10th-grader-released\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rowena Grubbly &#038; The Tale of Queen Astren&#8217;, a novel by 10th grader, released"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 17: A novel entitled &#8216;Rowena Grubbly &amp; The Tale of World Queen Astren&#8217; was released amid a function here in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The novel written in English by Hritzu Gautam, a student of Grade 10, was jointly released by former Chancellor of Nepal Academy Ganga Prasad Upreti, poet Devi Nepal and poet and critic Dipendra Adhikari.<\/p>\n<p>While commenting the book, critic Adhikari said, &#8220;The novel introduces readers to a magical land where young wizards and witches are trained to harness their powers and protect their realm. The protagonist, Rowena, known by her wizard name Silver moon, embarks on a journey filled with peril and excitement. Once a victim of bullying, Rowena&#8217;s transformation into powerful leader is central to the narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adhikari argued that the book is a good reading material for the teenagers who enjoy reading magical and supernatural stories.<\/p>\n<p>The novel develops in the supernatural setting and imaginative characters, spreads a strong message of psychology that no victims are victimized forever, if they reveal themselves, they can be a leader.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, writer Upreti opined that the Nepali writers writing in English should be promoted and supported from all sides.<\/p>\n<p>Author of the newly-released novel Gautam urged all readers to inspire her by reading and commenting the book so that she could continue writing further.<br \/>\nThe book was published by Saan Memorial Service Society. The price of the book is 300 rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 17: A novel entitled &#8216;Rowena Grubbly &amp; The Tale of World Queen Astren&#8217; was released amid a function here in the capital. The novel written in English by Hritzu Gautam, a student of Grade 10, was jointly released by former Chancellor of Nepal Academy Ganga Prasad Upreti, poet Devi Nepal and poet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}