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A review by jainandsdiary
Crochet by Raman Agarwal, Raman Agarwal
5.0
“कमज़ोर दिल वाले इस से दूर रहें”
Don’t we see or hear this line in the big bold letters on many YouTube videos to gain attention? Well, I’m doing the same here, but the only difference is that I mean it here as well!
The Crochet is a debut novel by author Raman Agarwal, a story that took the author more than a decade to write, and it is surely reflected in the story and the writing style.
I am that person who likes the core of the story more than the plot, and character development even more than the core! And this book excels itself in all these three, especially in the character development and portrayal, which make it one of my favorites of this year for sure!
The Crochet is the story of Tahir:
•A boy who lives in Jahangirpuri (to make it simpler, it’s a “refugee colony”) and so you can understand by the fact that what consequences it reflects in the society and people around him to make a perception about him and behave accordingly!
• A boy who loves writing poems and finds solace in words. He takes part in many competition and stand a good chance there as well, but came always second!
• A boy whose social group and friend circle is almost negligible and he is misunderstood by his peers!
• A boy whose dynamics in the family are not straightforward but get entangled with time and situations!
And there is much more to this character! You cannot restrict Tahir in some boundaries and features, he is much more of it! I remember before reading the book, the author told me that “I hope Tahir speaks to you the way he did to me!” But I just want to add here, that Tahir not only speaks how he speaks to the author, but Tahir is different for all of us and he speaks differently with each one of us!
Talking about the writing style of the author, the only word that pops up in my mind is “exquisite”, from the first page to the last, it feels like from somewhere Aladdin’s Djinn came, and with the smoke, it creates, transverse us into this another world of beautiful writing, with the things, situations and people around us! By the way, since I have referred to Aladdin here, the author has gracefully given many references, which if you know, you will get it instantly, or you might have to do a bit of work(as I did many times
Don’t we see or hear this line in the big bold letters on many YouTube videos to gain attention? Well, I’m doing the same here, but the only difference is that I mean it here as well!
The Crochet is a debut novel by author Raman Agarwal, a story that took the author more than a decade to write, and it is surely reflected in the story and the writing style.
I am that person who likes the core of the story more than the plot, and character development even more than the core! And this book excels itself in all these three, especially in the character development and portrayal, which make it one of my favorites of this year for sure!
The Crochet is the story of Tahir:
•A boy who lives in Jahangirpuri (to make it simpler, it’s a “refugee colony”) and so you can understand by the fact that what consequences it reflects in the society and people around him to make a perception about him and behave accordingly!
• A boy who loves writing poems and finds solace in words. He takes part in many competition and stand a good chance there as well, but came always second!
• A boy whose social group and friend circle is almost negligible and he is misunderstood by his peers!
• A boy whose dynamics in the family are not straightforward but get entangled with time and situations!
And there is much more to this character! You cannot restrict Tahir in some boundaries and features, he is much more of it! I remember before reading the book, the author told me that “I hope Tahir speaks to you the way he did to me!” But I just want to add here, that Tahir not only speaks how he speaks to the author, but Tahir is different for all of us and he speaks differently with each one of us!
Talking about the writing style of the author, the only word that pops up in my mind is “exquisite”, from the first page to the last, it feels like from somewhere Aladdin’s Djinn came, and with the smoke, it creates, transverse us into this another world of beautiful writing, with the things, situations and people around us! By the way, since I have referred to Aladdin here, the author has gracefully given many references, which if you know, you will get it instantly, or you might have to do a bit of work(as I did many times