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Dark Star
by Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Book: Dark Star
Author: Ranbir Sidhu
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/ Women's Fiction
Publisher: Context
Pages: 152
Dark Star by Ranbir Sidhu is not just a tale of partition through the thoughts and musings of an old woman, who is longing and dreaming of an India before Partition, who wants to tell the ruler of India her thoughts, views, and opinions but a book covering a lot of issues in between, throughout its journey.
Divided into three parts, the character of the old woman ages with the story, you could see how her thoughts get affected as time passes, and how her experience starts taking new shape with time, giving new perspectives, new dimensions, new possibilities, and at the same time the convergence of it as well!
The writing style of the author is quite different, giving the story a very unique shape and flow, neither being character nor plot oriented in the beginning, finding another way to present the story, through the chain of thoughts, emotions, and musings, to being a little character focused towards the end.
There are extreme political opinions in the book at instances, which can easily ignite rage in the readers. The comments of the Old Women on news channels, on politicians, on violence, on migration, on marriages, on love, on longing, and on dreams diversify the story. The book is not just another book on the partition, it's one of a kind!
The subtle change that the author brings in the writing is the key point of the book. You won't remember how you have gone from one context to another, one thought to another, one analogy to another, one event to another, and how magnificently some of them take comes to an end from the point they started, making a full circle.
The writing of the author is very rich and will need time to absorb, to take away what is written, and to unfold what is hidden and what is conveyed. It feels like even if you don't know what the story is about if you open a page randomly and start reading it, you'll get something thought-provoking from it. And that's the beauty of the writing. The analogies that the author gives here in the story are very distinctive and out of the box, giving a completely new point of view and perspective about the topics it talks about, making a unique connection with the readers at the same time.
The ending of the book made me a little restless and unsatisfactory, making me crave more from it, although being presented the same as I thought and predicted it would be. It could be taken as a master stroke from the author, to make the reader go through the same emotion which the character was going through or as a shortcoming at the same time, completely depending on the reader, how they perceive it, and I'll leave it to you, to know how you feel about it after reading the book.
Thank you to the publisher for the book in exchange for an honest review!
Author: Ranbir Sidhu
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/ Women's Fiction
Publisher: Context
Pages: 152
Dark Star by Ranbir Sidhu is not just a tale of partition through the thoughts and musings of an old woman, who is longing and dreaming of an India before Partition, who wants to tell the ruler of India her thoughts, views, and opinions but a book covering a lot of issues in between, throughout its journey.
Divided into three parts, the character of the old woman ages with the story, you could see how her thoughts get affected as time passes, and how her experience starts taking new shape with time, giving new perspectives, new dimensions, new possibilities, and at the same time the convergence of it as well!
The writing style of the author is quite different, giving the story a very unique shape and flow, neither being character nor plot oriented in the beginning, finding another way to present the story, through the chain of thoughts, emotions, and musings, to being a little character focused towards the end.
There are extreme political opinions in the book at instances, which can easily ignite rage in the readers. The comments of the Old Women on news channels, on politicians, on violence, on migration, on marriages, on love, on longing, and on dreams diversify the story. The book is not just another book on the partition, it's one of a kind!
The subtle change that the author brings in the writing is the key point of the book. You won't remember how you have gone from one context to another, one thought to another, one analogy to another, one event to another, and how magnificently some of them take comes to an end from the point they started, making a full circle.
The writing of the author is very rich and will need time to absorb, to take away what is written, and to unfold what is hidden and what is conveyed. It feels like even if you don't know what the story is about if you open a page randomly and start reading it, you'll get something thought-provoking from it. And that's the beauty of the writing. The analogies that the author gives here in the story are very distinctive and out of the box, giving a completely new point of view and perspective about the topics it talks about, making a unique connection with the readers at the same time.
The ending of the book made me a little restless and unsatisfactory, making me crave more from it, although being presented the same as I thought and predicted it would be. It could be taken as a master stroke from the author, to make the reader go through the same emotion which the character was going through or as a shortcoming at the same time, completely depending on the reader, how they perceive it, and I'll leave it to you, to know how you feel about it after reading the book.
Thank you to the publisher for the book in exchange for an honest review!