Kevein Books and Reviews

Author Manoj Kumar Sharma is a master storyteller, he has fabulous knack for stories that emanate from our web of social activities and places. Two of his previous successful and bestseller novels “MIRRRO” and “Me No Pause, Me Play” were warmly received by the reading communities across the world. His new fiction book Juuhhhuuu was spotted at the World Book Fair, New Delhi. Again, to surprise readers with something unique and new, this book is a collection of three long stories, however, brimming with entertainment and optimum dose of love. If love is known for being blind, well the author asserts that it could also happen in adverse and rarest of rare unlikely situations. From being victims of accidents to culprits, the first story has the most unlikely lovers in the world. Second story is more of a like a crime thriller, with lovers from different nations on the run, but sheltered in India, and fighting the goons from a hostile country. The last one is a mesmerizing love story of

Social media and writing platforms have revolutionized literature and poetry, giving wings to expression and musings to scores of poets and authors. Nowadays poetry in any language becomes an easy task, and it has evolved to a point of culmination. You could read from one-liners to a page full of free-flowing verses. I have been an avid reader of old to contemporary poetry of Hindi and Urdu on social media. Roots of Hindi poetry traces back to the dawn of civilization but then came that medieval period when Urdu intervened and it took a new form in the ways of Ghazals and Nazm. To be precise, Dr Nazia Sheikh’s written Hindi poetry (basically an Urdu Nazm book) Intisab-e-Nafs impressed me with its rich content that sheds light on life and its allied themes that keep us mesmerized. I would say, I found, this book taking stance on belongingness, aloofness, lonely ways of lovers, love, rememberence, betrayals, intriguing maze of relationships…and much more. It certainly shares stares with

‘Island Game of Modern Life’ is a rivetingly fantastic novel with a blend of more than a few themes that grip and define our lives in the world. The narrative of the story shuttles between life on earth and afterlife moments in Yamlok. This is not an outright novel about a particular character with all cynosures; rather it presents a range of sub-themes through its gamut of characters that meet in Yamlok. Inspired by the author’s grandpa, who is believed to return from Yamlok at the age of twenty-four, the novel teaches about contemporary life of a human being that is grappled by virtues and deeds like fame, money, satisfaction, recognition, and love. The novel is being narrated on the scaffold of four people’s life stories: Sukesh, Sanchita, Kapil, and Siddhant. Siddhant is the grandfather of the author. These four people die in an accident and reach Yamlok. They used to work in the same company on the earth. Since all are young, their death has left many aspirations and desires of th

It’s a historical fiction! And again I am wishing to live in its era, that part where the story is staged against. Do you also get similar cravings while enjoying historical fictions? What’s a book world that you would not want to live in? The Illustrated Boatman's Daughter by Tom Durwood is an immersive and powerful look into the lives of slave that dug the Suez Canal for outsiders at the cost of going hungry and remaining poor. It is a novel with colorful pictures inside and optimum content in dialogues and narrative. Overall, the presentation of the book is engrossing other than the reading experience, which is nothing less than a riveting experience in itself. It's about how one woman was able to work within the constraints of the time to change her own life and the people of her nation. The lead character is Salima from Cairo. Along with her friends Emilie and Mikal, they together work for a Dutch company, and are secretly assigned to look after discrepancies occurring

Anything based out of Africa becomes my instant favourite, be it a movie or a novel or a documentary. In that pursuit, for years I have read novels of Wilbur Smith. The more I get to know about this continent, the lesser it seems. Indeed Africa teems with stories – adventurous yet horrifying. Phil Clarke’s novel Falling Night is a brutal honest account of a humanitarian aid worker’s life in the horn of Africa. Though delivered in fictional tone, the novel is an extended version of a memoir of an international aid worker. The hero of the book is Alan Swales. He is from England – a young man with a girlfriend and good lifestyle. However to break the monotony of his life from a golden cage, his quest for something unusual and adventure brings him in the war-torn Kugombwala (fictional African country). MedRelief is the company that brings him. He works as an administrator in a hospital looking after starving kids. MedRelief was a sort of NGO, working in close alliance with UN peacekeepers

‘The Ayan Triangle’ by Avinash Ashu is a riveting romantic thriller wrapped in sci-fi genre. The way ‘love essence’ confronts readers in the novel would be a new journey altogether unlike any other. The story, right since the first page, is gripping and immersive. Not so many characters, yet whatever the cast is, that is enough to swirl you through its tempo and thrill. From the opening lines, I found myself drawn into the turbulent yet tender world of Ayan, the protagonist navigating the tempests of love and ambition in life. He is chasing the distant dream Siya, however, Elina seems to have a true love bonding for him. All major characters are young, first school and then into college. For them love is a different taste on the platter of life. Be it any age, but the obsession for love takes readers to a thrilling journey of incredible ups and down in their lives. Avinash's prose paints vivid portraits of love's highs and lows, leaving me emotionally invested in every twist an