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A review by susanj13
Leila by Prayaag Akbar
4.0
A woman's search for her daughter who was separated from her as a toddler by the "culture police" of the society as a punishment for marrying out of her religion. Sounds eerily familiar to something you might have read of in the papers? Well, the book is supposed to be dystopian themed but everything in it comes very close to fitting the bill in our present day world (more specifically, Indian society). The kind of stuff that creeps you out and makes you squirm in your seat.
I thought the content of the novel was very well compiled, though the writing did not quite win my heart at times. Often it felt like the big picture was being lost in the fine details like the description of a building or a street. But nevertheless, a very impressive debut novel.
I thought the content of the novel was very well compiled, though the writing did not quite win my heart at times. Often it felt like the big picture was being lost in the fine details like the description of a building or a street. But nevertheless, a very impressive debut novel.