Book review: Key to my soul by Probal Mazumdar

                 Key to my soul 

• Author: Probal Mazumdar
• Publisher: Maple Press
• Publication date: 16 Dec 2016
• Language: English 
• ISBN-10: 8193324803
• ISBN-13: 978-8193324806
• Book length: 304
• Printed price: Rs.195 only

About the author:

Probal Mazumdar works in an IT company. He is an engineer by societal pressure, guitarist by love at first sound, singer by accident, poet by soul, writer by passion, a world class badminton player in childhood dreams, rebel by day, recluse by night, a samosa in a family of laddoos, a Jughead at the dining table, a shameless and congenital dreamer.

Oh! An arsonist too – when his wife is not around, sets his own house on fire with his little son.

He won the FIRST prize in the All India Poetry Competition, 2014, conducted by PSI (Poetry Society of India). Click on www.indianpoetry.org/awardsgeneral14.htm

His other poems have risen too from cold storage into literary journals like Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), Wasafiri (U.K.), Acumen (U.K.), Chandrabhaga Literary Journal (Editor Jayanta Mahapatra), Dhauli Review, among others.

He writes short stories too. "Key To My Soul" is his debut novel.

Blurb:

"When Siddharth, a lonely young man with a failed marriage gets a sudden phone-call from a mysterious person about his lost childhood lover, Hazel and learns that she is battling for life, he is shaken to the core. He also learns that she had left certain letters for him fifteen years back that never reached him. It disturbs him so much that he rushes to the hospital in his old hometown. There he discovers an eclipsed past buried in time that is riddled with dangerous surprises, trauma, twists of fate, sacrifices that exemplify true love and the real reasons for the tragic end of their childhood love story. But will Hazel ever open her eyes to see him.."

My verdict: 

The story revolves around two childhood mates, Siddharth and Hazel. Its about how they met, they came close and separated. The climax of the story was totaly unexpected. The letters unfolding Hazel's story came as a big shock not only to Sidharth but also to me, as a reader. Our author has used simple English that everyone can comprehend. Good choice of words that make everyone who has crossed the teenage to revisit it. It is the debut book of the author and he has done a fantastic job. 

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