Author: Keshav Aneel
Publisher: Srishti Publishers & Distributors
Published: 2016
Pages: 154
Price: Rs. 175/-
My Ratings: ☆☆☆☆▪5
The debut author Keshav Aneel has started his journey by this mind blowing book. The country in which every month millions of books are published, this manages to gain the *spotlight*. The plot of the book is so beautiful that I feel like escaping from the real world and getting inside this pure fictitious world. The author has been purely successful in writing a "pure fiction". The places which he has created are fictitious. The story is well crafted!
"SPOILER AHEAD!!!"
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The story is about two friends: Edwin and Charlie who leave their village of Lugaar and go to the city of Etiole to find better opportunities. The struggle they face in the big city is explained in the initial pages of the book. Edwin and Charlie are childhood friends. The fact that both of them are orphans make one read the book with a more open insight. For Charlie and Edwin; friendship is the only relationship that they've celebrated so far in their lives. Edwin comes to Etiole with a strong desire to become a successful actor. Charlie accompanies his friend. They find a decent place to live in the big city. Charlie finds a reasonable job and Edward moves forward to catch the butterfly of his dreams.
The twist-in-the-tale comes when Charlie meets Aster, a medical intern that helps him improve at his job as a sales person. A chance meeting with Aster make Charlie's life fall a place until he gets to know about Aster's brutal past. He feels more connected towards her and promises to give every possible kind of love & affection. The story moves on smoothly with Charlie and Aster discovering their newly found love with one another. Further in the story, Charlie reveals his love for writing. Aster encourages him to write and Charlie leaves behind everything to write a book dedicated to the love of his life. He is only few steps away from his dream that his laptop gets stolen (in which his complete manuscript is). His heart dies and his soul gets shattered. Aster consoles him and takes him out from the dead hole of depression.
The story moves ahead blissfully until one of Aster's old classmate make Charlie feel inferior. He tortures Charlie with his rude remarks & tells him that he does not deserve Aster as he can never give her all the luxuries. After a long introspection, Charlie decides to part ways with Aster for her benefit. He starts to believe that he isn't really the right one for Aster. He leaves her with an untold story. Later, in the book Charlie realizes his mistake and decides to move back to Aster. He commits to work very hard to fulfil all her desires. This time he writes a book once again and ultimately reaches the success point.
He moves around finding Aster to embrace her once again. He gets to know that she has gone to Lugaar, his very own village. He runs to be with her & share the joy of his book. Both die in a terrorist attack.
The book is easy to read and solely deserve everyone's favouritism. I will surely recommend this book. It will cast a very good future for the author. I wish him luck!
Pick this book & take it on a vacation. It will not fail to charm you at all.
Till then, keep reading & breathe in books!
Toodles! (:
