Kevein Books and Reviews

Divided by clan taboos, united by the vagaries of fate, Neelam Chandra Saxena is back with bang.  In the Flickering of an Eye, Vinay and Manju: the lovers from ordinary landscape endure an extraordinary love tale. Vinay, a shy teenager, holds a competitive rivalry against the much-hyped, tomboyish girl Manju. However, things between both begin changing following a cuddle up during a torrential rain. When Manju deliberately looses a volleyball game to save the thinning dignity of Vinay, he finds himself in love with her.  Though they both hail from simple and mediocre families and are also closely tied by means of neighbourhood goodwill, ritual exchanges, and family friendship; but their love story is not going to be simple, well-staged and easily convinced. Since they belong to the same Gotra (clan), subsequently their love affair cannot head for a successful marriage. That is the only hurdle. Nevertheless, they continue their affair despite knowing the risk. Love...

‘She Walks, She Leads’by Gunjan Jain features true stories of 24 women from India. The book holds a special limelight not because it is full of celebrities but it takes toil to rev up reminisces of childhood, nubile romance, family and tradition talks, life aspirations along with how well they fared to achieve their set goals. The writer must have put in lot of efforts in research because the protagonists hail from various and diverse fields, rather than one. Also, to cover the profiles extensively, the book has been segmented field wise i.e. from altruism to corporate to sports and everything in between. Whether you are reading love tale of Nita & Mukesh Ambani or the struggle saga of a Manipuri girl Mary Kom, the narration oscillates from pains to gains, missed to hit points but the exploration never boils down to dull tempo. A story covered well is riveted through all angles: personal, from the close allies, etc. Therefore the author has put in special efforts to suppl...

Jay Harper, a young geophysicist, comes to Harper’s Park to explore the village of his ancestors. Nestled in a valley below the snowy peaks of New Mexico’s Sangre de Christo Mountains, the village is submerged beneath an artificial lake. It has not rained for months and the lake behind the big dam is low. As Jay, in scuba gear, swims through the placid waters looking in the old cemetery for family tombstones, he notices disturbing features in the construction of the dam. Would it hold, he wonders, if mountain torrent set loose a flash flood? Jay warns of the danger to the town, but the powerful and rich do not care to listen to anything that might threaten their prosperity, and the poor Spanish-Americans in the shanty town below the dam are hardly considered. Then, high up in the mountains, it starts to rain, and rain… Only when it becomes alarmingly clear that the dam may not stand up to this unexpected danger, do the inhabitants of Harper’s Park forget their differences i...

C.J. Sansom is a writer divided between war fiction and historical mystery. He was born in a Scotland (Edinburgh) in 1952 and went to the University of Birmingham, from where he did BA and also earned PHD in History. Thus, all his work set in the well-settled historical background – be it a war fiction or the England of 16th century.   Despite his Scottish roots he is known as a writer from Britain.  Before plunging into writing, he was a full-time lawyer practicing in Sussex. Academics in history is a major tool for his writing, he came into limelight with Shardlake series, where he developed a historical character Matthew Shardlake who has been featured in books like Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, and Lamentation. While his war fiction novels include all-time best seller Winter in Madrid, and Dominion, which won him Sidewise Award for Alternate History. In Dominion, he has put that Nazi party has won the WW-II, and in collaboration o...

The story unfolds in medieval Cambridge. Noted highlights include - a Christmas of 1354; winter is all set to white out lives of people. Uncanny deaths takes place thus Matt comes into the affair.    The book, like other ones, is Matthew Bartholomew series. The number 9. The story sounds bit boring and repetitive – that’s the problem with series writers. The mystery  doesn't  offer any great scope or place of interest; however, routes the way as happened in other books. So many books on mystery domain with the same detective is risky. Phillipa, former lover of Matthew, is being agonised by death of a servant, and her husband, a rich merchant. The period shown in the book is of 13th century, so the events leading to one another sounds quite contemporary to that time. In fact, bringing a feel about that time is quite fascinating. Only a historian could do that, which she (Susanna) has already delivered. Terribly, there are many characters that make...

Contrary to the likely situations, David Morgan, an heir to Morgan fortune, wants to fly. However the way for his dream along with love is treacherous, full of fateful events. Eagle in the Sky by Wilbur Smith is, yet, another classic book. The book, like others, route through and towards the end lands back to the African soil to make it more captivating. During a cavalier escape, in Spain, David befriends with Debra Mordecai (then a struggling writer) and her brother Joe; and later on David falls in love with her. During the war between Palestine and Israel, David becomes a jet-fighter pilot and serves Israel. In the following tragic events, Debra loses her eyesight, Joe dies; and David in a terrible plane accident loses his beautiful face. Post the tragedy, the separation comes between them. But, as a true hero, David finds and takes her to Africa to take care of his family business. In Africa, the story becomes all the way more romantic and action packed. Debra upon fin...

Michael Madhusudan Dutt won substantial glory to his name as a Bengali poet and dramatist in 19th century. He was born in Jessore District, East Bengal, and now a part of Bangladesh. He pioneered in Bengali drama. Meghnad Bodh Kavya was his super famous work, a tragic epic. It had hit the focus light for being an exceptional work with style and content in Bengali literature, a rarity then. His work was inclusive of affliction and pain, spoken by women with reference to love and tragedies. Then, being a male writer featuring female characterization was unique as well as rare.      Owing to his desire to become an Englishman, he, later on, accepted Christianity. Though he regretted afterwards, however the pain he got from the haunting memories of his homeland was reflected in his sorrowful poems. He was extremely good with Bengali sonnets and to some extent was considered father of the Bengali sonnets. Michael Madhusudan was heavily inspired by lif...

Premchand was one of the classics of Hindustani literature. Many prominent figures and newspapers usually referred to him as ‘Upanyas Samrat’ (Emperor of novels). He was famous with the name Munshi Premchand, though his real (born) name was Dhanpat Rai. During initial years of his writing career he took Nawab Rai as a pen name but later on switched to Munshi Premchand. Britishers were jealous of Premchand; as well feared his writing capabilities can bring about a freedom revolution among the masses, so with trepidation they burnt 3000 copies of Soz-e-Watan. Furthermore to continue his writing passion, he hid his identity and switched to a very peculiar Hindi name - Munshi Premchand. Even the hatred of Britishers could not stop this contemporary novelist from writing all time classics, which are equally celebrated even today. Children study his literature in schools; he was such a great artist. He wrote over 250 short stories and a dozen novels, all his novels were ...