Title : A broken Man
Author : Akash Verma
Blurb : Take a deep breath before you are born here, my child! You take birth in a land where I struggled; Gave it my sweat and blood. A land that I thought belonged to me..… Unbridled, uncompromising.
Krishna is a Dalit boy from Bihar who struggles too overthrow the chains that hold him back. Chhavi is a high caste Brahman girl fighting for the rights of others, propagating equality in a politically charged Lucknow University campus. After Krishna saves Chhavi from getting torched during a protest against reservation, love slowly blossoms, only to be ruthlessly crushed by a society that thrives on divisions of caste and religion. From student politics in Lucknow to the interiors of Bihar, from the corridors of power to the glitz of media and the film industry in Mumbai.
A Broken Man is the quest of a deprived Krishna to redeem hope from despair, love from separation and success out of repeated failures. From the bestselling author of It Happened That Night and Three Times Loser, this is a story that reinforces our faith in what love can accomplish as it pushes us to achieve the impossible, making us tap our true inner potential.
Review: The tag on the front cover of the book -'From the best selling author of It Happened That Night & Three Times Loser's,made me excited to ,and brought lot of expectations from the writer.Having not read his previous titles, I was inclined towards this book, so as to find how enriching is the content of the book and how the author plays with words.
The more the reader reads the words of the author the more he/she gets driven towards it.The chain of events that author has planned for the reader would make the reader grow impatient to unveil the follow-up events.
The short stories quoted as an example to juxtapose the events is what I like the most in the book.Just like a child is made hear to such stories to learn something about life, those stories made the protagonist learn about his life.
I was expecting the end to be more interesting and twisting in nature.It didn't put the lasting effect on my mind as the story becomes a bit dull as it approaches towards the end.
Rating : 3/5
Reviewer : Shweta Kesari
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