For a man to sketch a woman's mind must not be easy. However, the author of the book has so effortlessly sketched the intimate feelings of a woman, he does not seem struggling in even a single paragraph.

If the whole story is to be summarized, there will be five simple sentences and they might sound telling a familiar love story. And one might even not be motivated to read the book. It is only after reading the book one would realize what a mistake that would be.

The book is more than a simple fiction. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a psychological philosophy.

The strength of the book is not in the storyline itself but in the presentation of the story. A savory style with hand-picked vocabulary and poetry-like flow, profound philosophies, meticulous description of mental roller-coasters--these are what give this tiny booklet much heavier weight than a heavy book would have. Short sentences and paragraphs made from selected words make not even a single sentence or a word wasteful.

To conclude, with a skillful depiction of the conflicts between heart and mind, between suppressed and expressed desires, between abstract and concrete feelings and between fantasy and reality, the book serves an excellent psychoanalysis in fiction. And, as for the readers, there is no way for them not to identify with the protagonist in one or the other way.

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-Bharati Gautam