Fiction
Fiction
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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A captivating and lyrical read. If you have picked up this book there is no way you can keep it down. More so, you will keep coming back to read and feel the bond between Amir and Hassan.
2
A story infused with love, friendship, empathy, guilt, betrayal and redemption. Every word in the narrative makes you feel a thousand emotions at the same time.
3
In the end, you are left with the red damp eye, a runny nose, and a wide smile laden with sadness. A book that stays with you for a long time.
4
The narrative is beautifully painted with the colours that indeed take you to the lanes of Afghanistan, to the lives of war-stricken people, and in the end, Afghanistan in the clutches of the Taliban.
5
A vivid description and a reminder of what it takes to live in peace, and more so with the people we love.
Fiction
The Forest of Enchantment by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A pure work of delicacy, grace, compassion, love, pluralities and possibilities. A modern-day retelling of the Ramayana from Sita’s point of view was very well needed for today’s world.
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The book unravels the multi-layers of Sita and portrays a plethora of human emotions stored in her, often neglected.
3
The narrative is neatly woven into incidents that slowly morph into revelations that shape ideas and ideologies.
4
The book also re-tells the stories of other female characters who were pushed, cornered, and trivialized. Kaikey, Suanina, Urmila, Mandodari, and Surpanakha come to life as they tell their stories, misheard and misinterpreted till now.
5
Embedded with a soft and pleasant narrative, the book poses questions about toxic masculinity, sexism, inequality, casteism and truth and myths.
Fiction
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
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The book interweaves two parallel narratives of Kafka Tamura, a teenage runaway boy, and Satotu Nataka, an aging man, slowly pacing towards the surreal and intriguing ending.
2
The book follows the technique of magic realism infused with mundane and melancholy.
3
Murakami’s characters' mark the path for the readers in the metaphysical novel of gravity and lightness. The unreal elements are blended so well that they can hardly be called away from reality.
4
The book is filled with riddles and labyrinths where your logic rarely meets. It gives a view that nothing has changed, yet everything looks different.
5
Reading it feels like living a dream with an adrenaline rush in the veins!
Fiction
Girl in White Cotton by Avni Doshi
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A passage of altering identities, shifting memories, a journey of the mother-daughter toxic relationship, and their disturbing dynamics.
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An unsettling escape in familial deception and devotion.
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Avni Doshi’s characters are humane, with human flaws, forcing readers not to omit even a line, for they are perfectly tragic.
4
The end doesn’t come dramatically rather boils down slowly by absorbing all the twinge and sadness written on every fragile page.
5
The ending stays with you making you contemplate on life and relations that matter to you.
