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Book Review
TELUGU
Fiction rooted in reality
Ambika Ananth
NAAKU VISHRAANTHI KAAVAALI: V. Ramalakshmi; Pub. by Vahini Book Trust, 1-9-286/3, Vidyanagar, Hyderabad-500044.
Rs. 100.
THE WRITER depicts well the struggles, weaknesses, anguish and also the beauty and contentment of life in general and about women’s life in particular. She does not look through a prism of cynicism. Despite showing the negative aspects of life there runs a thread of hope in the narrative till the end. Common themes like family conflicts, death, suicide, love may read like reruns of stale TV serials, but if a writer takes care to present it in a fresh manner, readers’ ennui can be handled well. That’s what she does in some of her stories. In the story “Naaku Vishrathi Kaavaali” it becomes very easy to empathise with Savithri, the protagonist, who after her ailing husband’s death, keeps drifting off into deep sleep, a much needed rest after taking care of a terminally ill spouse. How she is ridiculed by her own children, how she faces all of it stoically is well brought out.
Wry humour comes out well in some. Few stories lack subtlety and seem as though the writer is trying to milk pathos. But this book with some fine stories conveys reality with candour.
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