bookreview

Author: Sabarna Roy
Genre: fiction

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Ratings: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
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🔮(Review)🔮
It comprises of 14 short stories and 21 poems. The Stories, set in Calcutta, bring to the fore the darkness lurking in the human psyche and bare the baser instincts. Also it raises contemporary issues like man-woman relationships and its strains, moral and ethics, environmental degradation, class inequality, rapid and mass-scale unmindful urbanisation, are devoid of sentimentalisation.

Simultaneously,the poems weave a maze of dreams, images, reflections and stories. These poems are inseparable in a hidden way and are magically sequenced like various kinds of flowers in a garland or chapters of differing shades in a novel.

As I have read author’s few books before, so I was quite sure that author would portray the Calcutta’s culture and their traits in his poems. Hence, readers are pulled into their memory lane. Language is easy to understand and narration is really impressive.

I must say I was little disappointed. Some parts are monotonous or sometimes we dwell too much on some things in this stories. Anyway, it has something that makes me wonder though. Overall, it’s a nice book.