Wings to imagination
A.D. RANGARAJAN
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SSC student Suma Mandalapu writes a full-length English novel.
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Suma Mandalapu.
At a time when the falling academic standards in school education is rued, here is an SSC student who has authored a full-length English novel revolving around a fantasy world. Suma Mandalapu of Bhashyam Public School, Tirupati, got her novel, The Wings of Dreams released recently at the school's annual day festival at Guntur. The novel has also been posted at `www.lulu.com', a self-publishing and self-selling website for books. The book costs $5.99 for download and $13.64 for a paperback copy.
The wings of dreams is a fairytale kind of novel about a girl, Fay, who seeks to find out about her past. She comes across a winged prince, a sorceress and scores of other mystic characters of Myniell, the land of winged humans. Also, Suma has interspersed the story with full-page drawings of major episodes and pencil caricatures of some of the characters.
An avid reader of fairy tale comics, Suma first hit upon the idea when she was still in the sixth standard. Developing the plot further, she gave a shape to the story in the summer holidays of 2006. Interestingly, it took her only a month to complete the novel.
She refers to the support extended by her father, a doctor, and her mother, a university teacher, as the clinching factor that made her write the novel.
The novel, which has quite a good number of characters, ends rather inconclusively, with several of the lead characters not shown a logical end. For this, Suma says that a sequel will be written soon, may be this summer, that would show Fay her ancestral roots.
And, without any doubt, that will also take Suma to a higher plane in the literary landscape.
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