Review of the book blue umbrella, PLZZ fast give me
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There are books, then there are classics. There are writers, then there are authors. A step above you have the story tellers. But there are people, beyond these mortal levels. People whose words weave a web so powerful that you realise, once again, why you could never put a good book down and concentrate on other work, no matter how big or small it is. These are the people who tell you what a solace reading can be. The words seem to leap out at you from the pages and you feel that the author's chisel has worked over something ordinary and made it extraordinary. It is more about the familiarity one feels as a reader rather than the actual story and content of the book. Much like the case with music, it does not matter what the content is, as long as the accompanying memories are powerful enough. So the moment I began reading, the first reaction was one of familiarity.
So what is so special about this book? A simple village girl, Binya, exchanges her lucky pendant for a blue umbrella she sees with picknickers who had come to the mountainside near her sleepy village. The book follows the story of Binya and her blue umbrella. The one liner of the plot does no justice to the actual story. When you see Binya struggling with the blue umbrella and the near misses and losses she has with it, your heart goes out to her. When you see the villagers' reaction to a simple girl having a fancy umbrella, many facets of human emotions are so effortlessly revealed. When you see how her brother Bijju supports her through all this, you can see how a true sibling bond behaves.
The story is not majestic, not grand. But when one imagines the umbrella blowing away in the wind out of Binya's hand, one can very well get the thrill of having read about a high profile criminal car chase at 220 miles per hour. And the sigh of relief after she safely gets the beloved umbrella is followed by a deep breath of contentment from the reader's side. The characters are simple in their complexity and complex in their simplicity. The magic of the book is not in the storyline, but is in the way the author brings you into the part of the story so much so that for the twenty odd minutes one would take to read this book, one would leave the armchair that holds them and instead, travel with Binya and Bijju and other characters of that sleepy Himalayan village.
A good read overall!!
So what is so special about this book? A simple village girl, Binya, exchanges her lucky pendant for a blue umbrella she sees with picknickers who had come to the mountainside near her sleepy village. The book follows the story of Binya and her blue umbrella. The one liner of the plot does no justice to the actual story. When you see Binya struggling with the blue umbrella and the near misses and losses she has with it, your heart goes out to her. When you see the villagers' reaction to a simple girl having a fancy umbrella, many facets of human emotions are so effortlessly revealed. When you see how her brother Bijju supports her through all this, you can see how a true sibling bond behaves.
The story is not majestic, not grand. But when one imagines the umbrella blowing away in the wind out of Binya's hand, one can very well get the thrill of having read about a high profile criminal car chase at 220 miles per hour. And the sigh of relief after she safely gets the beloved umbrella is followed by a deep breath of contentment from the reader's side. The characters are simple in their complexity and complex in their simplicity. The magic of the book is not in the storyline, but is in the way the author brings you into the part of the story so much so that for the twenty odd minutes one would take to read this book, one would leave the armchair that holds them and instead, travel with Binya and Bijju and other characters of that sleepy Himalayan village.
A good read overall!!
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