We all r living in a healthy society where there is no fear of survival and life.But do you ever thought about the life of people who r living under an eye of the terrorists? Everyday when they r wake up women have to face harrasment children to be abused.It is uncertain for them whether they are able to see the next day’s morning or not. This is the life of people in J & K.
📚Title:-Snakes in the Meadows
🖋️Author:-Ayaz Kohli
🗞️Publisher:-Rupa Publication
🖌️Genre:-Fiction
🔠Language:-English
📖Format:-Paperback
💠COVER & TITLE :-The cover of the book looks attractive&appitative.The title of the book is also nice&simply matching with the storyline.
💠SYNOPSIS:-The book set in the beautiful hill town Pathri Aali of J&K in 1987.Ashwar & Aslam the two main protagonist of the story have fallen in love from their school days.But they r separated from each other due to family dispute.Ashwar have to give up all her dreams&married to a widower Hanif who have 2 children already. Aslam can’t bear the pain&ran away from Pathri Aali to Mumbai.In the years,some peoples were migrated to Saudi Arabia in search of job&earnings.Other group of people started motivating youth to join them in the name of Mujahideen which later turned out to be the devil in the guise of an angel.As most of men migrated the village is mostly left with women&children & these inhuman tortured them include murder,rape,child abuse&many more.Ashwar finally determined not to take them grant their lives anymore so she calls out Aslam across the distance of time&space to return & survive their lives.
💠WRITING & LANGUAGE:-The writing is good and very beautifully represented. The language is lucid understandable.
✔️ THINGS I LIKE MOST :-
🍁Pplot is gluid & keep the interest of reader from beginning to end.
🍁The serious and sensitive issues r represented in a heartwarming manner.
🍁Characters are well developed.
🍁 Descriptive & decisive representation.
✖️ THINGS I DON’T LIKE :-
💔Slow paced.
💔Many characters with confusing names.
💠MY RATING :-
Cover-4/5
Title-3.8/5
Plot-4.7/5
Writing-4.2/5
Language-4.1/5
Protrayed of Characters-3.8/5
🔷OVERALL – 🌟🌟🌟🌟
🛡️FINAL WORD :-Fact based fiction story about J&K