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Delayed Monsoon (2011)

by Chitralekha Paul(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8122311717 (ISBN13: 9788122311716)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Pustak Mahal

review 1: This is the story of Abhilasha, wife of an air-force officer, who finds herself in a middle-age crisis of sorts. After toiling for an ungrateful husband for years, she finds herself craving for love, affection or maybe just some attention at-least. Now she finds this love in the least likely of all places - the internet. This is what the description on the cover says. But, the novel is more about her life leading upto this point of her discovery of the virtual world. It looks more like a re-collection of various highlights of her life, at diff places (with her husband getting transferred to a diff place every few years). In the end it's not just just a quest for love n affection, it's actually quest for a direction to her life, to give some meaning to her life and do somet... morehing that she really enjoys.Things that i didn't like:1) Towards the end the author gets a bit preachy about relationships and how to nurture them. For a few pages i felt like am reading a self-help book, not a novel. But then the advice given isn't bad or anything to find fault with, it just didn't go down well with my expectations.2) There are far too many mini-stories embedded into the novel. No doubt each one of them is captivating but i couldn't make a connection between the actual story of the novel and at least a couple of these minies.3) I sort of felt cheated as i thought the entire novel (or at least a major part of it) would be about how Abhilasha found her love online and how she dealt with it, but was disappointed to find out that the online-love appears only in the last 30 pages.
review 2: No doubt Delayed Monsoon is rather a woman centric fiction. Then why did I enjoy reading this book which talks about Abhilasha, the protagonist who is a lady? The answer is, it has helped me to understand what a woman really wants from a man. The character of Abhilasha is so real that at no point of time it appears that you are reading a fiction. Delayed Monsoon is about real people, real feelings and real life. It was a great read!! I recommend this book to all of you who want to read a book written in simple English but gives a deep insight into human characters. less

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