- Book: An Immortal Story : A Tale of Tolerance Beyond Limit.
- Author: Satyendra Dhariwal.
- Publication House: Ayush Books.
- Category: Fiction.
- Rating: 2.5/5
Story-in-Short:
Do you have a permanent dream? I know the answer of the
majority will be yes. Vinayak (lead character) had one too. But what if your
dream will scatter like a pack of cards and it becomes certain that you can
never achieve your goal.
What if you lose someone dear, your studies left in between,
unwillingly get married at an early age, have to bear most of the
responsibilities and internal strife of your joint family (that too at an
early-age), hated by your wife and in-laws, lose your health and natural-you
and finally find yourself doing an unwanted 3rd grade clerical job.
It is impossible to see another dream now (while pain for
the first one still lingers), it is possible to focus when you are struggling
for almost everything? The answer is yes. This is a story of a boy who lost
previous years of his early twenties just to find out what could be his second
dream since from childhood he wanted to do something ‘big.’ He had to fight
almost everything to achieve his dream. An Immortal Story is the story of
struggle with own struggle for love, struggle with life, with society and for
career. This is the story of tolerance beyond limit. If you are down in any
field of life this story will hold your hand, let you up and give the courage
to follow your positive side of heart. Welcome to ‘An Immortal Story’ – A life
giving tale.
In my view:
Life is really complex. It definitely isn’t as we perceive
it to be. So-far, you must have read stories of wife’s and girlfriends being
dependant on their husbands or boyfriends but this story that debutant author Satyendra
Dhariwal gets is the opposite.
Vipul, an aspiring author is damn happy as he gets praises
for his manuscript from Vinayak Chaudhary. Vinayak Chaudhary is a reputed
author of three block buster novels and is himself the protagonist of this
story. Vipul gets an invitation from Vinayak and when he goes there, Vinayak
forwards a contract to him. Now, this contract is for narration of a novel
based on a story given by Vinayak. Vipul thinks a bit and signs the contract
following which Vinayak begins to narrate the story to Vipul.
Vinayak is a boy coming from a poor background. His family;
joint family to be precise, isn’t living in good times. Yet, Vinayak develops
his love towards cricket and writing. He drops studies after his Junior College
and takes up a job, as a clerk, at a place away from his village. Then one day
there comes a proposal for him. This proposal is bought by his sister for
marriage.
From first sight itself, Sneha gets trapped into Vinayak’s
eyes and he starts falling for her. With family consent, both engage. But
situations change after sometime when Sneha sounds a bit irritated while
talking to Vinayak. Meanwhile, Vinayak resigns from his job as he is pissed off
by the nature of his seniors. After marriage Vinayak becomes financially depended
on the money earned by Sneha. Nights full of sorrows pass by and one fine day,
after their marriage Vinayak discovers something shocking.
What does Vinayak finds, Will this love story continue or
will there be an end to it? Read the book to find more!
Over-all: By
looking at the cover of the book readers might not pick it up. And the title too,
will add to the ignorance towards the book. Both the cover as well as the title
should have been better. The beginning and the ending of the story is good.
The story seems to be interesting in the initial stage. But
as it proceeds, interest of a reader tends to dodge. Especially, when the
protagonist converses with Sneha, questions like Do you love me, Are you Happy
with me, constantly turn up several times in the dialogues which irritates a reader. I think the author had many ways of giving this story a different and
interesting turn but he stuck to the same style and questions.
Grammatically too, I found some mistakes in the book which definitely
could have been avoided. Well, this was the author’s debut novel and I am sure
that in his next novels these things will be taken care off.
Considering everything, I would rate the book with 2.5/5.
Congratulations to the author for his debut novel. Hope he keeps on writing and
comes up with more novels!
Note: A reviewer’s
copy of the book was provided by the author.
- The Book is available in all the leading bookstores.
- You can also purchase it online: HomeShop 18, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Infibeam, Amazon.
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