Paperback: 344 pages
Title: A Life to Die for
Author: Nilay Shah
Publisher: Zorba Books (11 October 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9386407787
ISBN-13: 978-9386407788
Cover and Title
The cover of the book shows the image of a person walking with back toward us which could probably be a sad person or is some one who is walking away from the reality of life? Both ways its cover with an orange tint is eye catching and could gather some attention from people. The title "A life to die for" seems to confuse people before they have read it , once you read the book we can understand what inner meaning the book has to offer.
Theme
The story is narrated in a fictional place is Kashmir which is portrayed as a haven to people who is outside it. But is it really the case? A tale of a young girl Preksha who is made captive by a miscreant person and is tortured both physically and mentally , People of the area gather together and vow to give her the justice and bring the person behind it under bars and give him a ultimate punishment he deserves. The people pressures forces the Government to investigate the case. Parallelly the person who saved Preksha is shown to have links with the terrorist and he is trying to find to culprit in his own way. There is a link to all these which the book portraited beautifully
Language and Narration
The language used in the book has a good mixture of trendy words which suits the storyline. The narration of the book is good enough to keep the readers toed up while reading each chapters in the book.
What I Liked and Disliked
There is nothing to dislike in the book, the characterization , the plot and the narration complements each other pretty well making it a good sociopolitical read
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