Back Home in a Coffin

Back Home in a Coffin is a powerful novel about migration, loss, and the fight to reclaim dignity at home. In a rural Nepali village caught between political change and economic desperation, Prakash drifts through life with no clear future. When his closest friend, Rabin, leaves for Qatar to escape debt and support his family, hope briefly takes flight. Months later, Rabin returns in a sealed coffin-worked to death under brutal conditions abroad.
Shattered by grief and guilt, Prakash is forced to confront the system that drives young men to risk their lives for survival. His search for answers pulls him into a web of corrupt labor brokers, empty political promises, and families left broken by loss. Along the way, he finds unexpected allies-a disabled beekeeper building local alternatives, a determined lawyer fighting for compensation, and villagers refusing to accept silence.
Both an intimate coming-of-age story and a searing indictment of global labor exploitation, Back Home in a Coffin is a moving portrait of community resilience. It asks a haunting question faced by millions: when survival demands leaving home, what does it truly cost-and who pays the price?