Most of the reviews that I had read before actually buying the book had actually quite dismissed the book, mainly because of the language and the crass comparisons presented in the book. Very few of them had managed to talk about the actually story.... which by the way I am not going to either ;)
Well, it is quite different from all the other books of Nagarkar; Not that you could typecast his writing in any way. But unlike his other books, this one gives an impression that somewhere along the line he was trying to "impress" the reader and write according to their whims.
Its a story of religious fanatic Zia-Lucens-Tejas who considers himself the God's little soldier out to bring discipline, peace and what not to the existing chaotic world and like most fanatics, everything is just black or white... Zia lives in a world of extremes. On the other hand is his brother, Amanat a strange combination of a writer, architect and an asthamatic... The book traces their world of love-hate relationship.
Its surely does not live upto the expectations of a Kiran Nagarkar book, but its not one that could be dismissed easily either!
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