PLOTS: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 5/5 WRITING STYLE: 5/5 CLIMAX: 4.5/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 5/5 Hailed as one of the best-known authors of today, she is a celebrated recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in the year 2000. Though named Nilanjana Sudeshna, she loves to go by her nickname, Jhumpa Lahiri. She was born to Indian immigrants […]
The King’s Harvest | Chetan Raj Shrestha | Book Review
PLOT: 4.5/5 CHARACTERS: 4.5/5 WRITING STYLE: 4.5/5 CLIMAX: 3 /5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 4.5/5 I remember it was the summer of 1996; my aunt was newly married and still living with us when her tall, dark, handsome knight in shining armour came to stay with us (read stay with her) for two weeks. It was a […]
Saleem on Earth and Other Stories | Book Review
PLOT: 3/5 CHARACTERS: 3/5 WRITING STYLE: 3/5 CLIMAX: 3/5 ENTERTAINMENT QUOTIENT: 3/5 Reading short stories is definitely not the same as reading a full-fledged novel. In a novel, the author has the time to build the characters and the plot while the reader gets to peel off the layers one by one in anticipation of […]