Rootless by Kaushik Roy Book Review
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The attachment of love is above everything once you bond with a person bcoz of love even death can't make you apart from that special person. That kind of love makes you stronger and courageous, and makes you do the craziest things. You need not be a lover for that believe me on this.
Shahil Kabir, a young IT professional has grown up in a middle-class family with his father and grandmother. He loses his mother at a young age and so the grandmother is the one whom he is most attached to. A 9 to 5 job and small lovely family is the paradise of Shahil.
But chaos always finds a way into paradise and the same happens with Shahil when his grandmother passed away. He discovers some personal letters from her and reading them he smells that his biological grandfather can be someone else.
He decides to visit his grandmother's birthplace in Bangladesh to dwell deep into the mystery to unreveal the real identity of his grandfather.
Will he succeed in resolving his identity crisis? Will the journey turn his life topsy-turvy?
Based on true facts and lives, this book contains a lot of brutality and blood baths. Millions of people loses their life and the series of assassination of national heroes even after the independence of a new born Nation, Bangladesh.
My review
Mostly I read romance and thriller genres. So it is my first experiment where I opt to read something out of my interest and believe me I didn't get much disappointment. The book Rootless by Kaushik Roy is a brilliant book if we talk about the facts, miniscule details and dates.
If you see this book as a collection of information about Bangladesh it's way much better than history books. It is the writing of the book which makes the reading a plain sailing experience but if we talk about the story here the author's writing lacks a connection with me. In the whole story I didn't feel the agony, pain and the tension which was there but the way the author portrayed them, was missing the intensity of the scenario.
The author did a great research to give readers the perfect picture of the massacre and patriotism of Bangladesh's citizens. The brutality of the razakars and pakistan army was heinous. Bangladesh's citizens' patriotism was as high as the smoke of the lava. Every citizen who dreamt about the independence of their Nation, they were ready to sacrifice their life without thinking twice.
There were riots going on when Shahil landed on the Bangladesh, he was risking his life to know the truth, not bcoz his grandmother hid it for them bcoz he was too attached to his grandmother that he wants to know about her everything. So basically he was putting his life in danger to live a bit more with his grandmother. These things weren't meticulously described in the book though I reckon that It could be the best thing if The author tried to emphasize the emotional attachment more precisely.
If you are a historical fiction fan then this book will suit your taste bcoz besides history this book has mystery, love story, patriotism, and many more lovely happy things which you cannot expect between a war but those things are happening in the book and definitely gonna stay with you even after the end of the story.
-Abhi Panwar
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