Book Name: The Forest of Enchantments
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Genre: Fictional/ Mythological
Pages: 358
Published in 2019, the book is a work of art presented in the usual style of this author, stunning which gives a glimpse of Ramayana through the eyes of Sita. Yes, Sitayan.
LOVE WAS FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS. SOMETIMES THE PERSON YOU LOVED WEAKENED YOU AND SOMETIMES HE OR SHE MADE YOU A STRONGER PERSON. BUT UNDER EXACTLY WHAT CONDITIONS DID THESE VERY DIFFERENT CHANGES OCCUR?
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Forest of Enchantment)
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an excellent author and teacher of writing. She has written various books spraying a magical charm over the story that makes the reader curious and excited even for the facts that the stories are well-known and famous to us already. She was born in the year 1956 in Kolkata and presently lives in Houston (Texas). She teaches a highly acclaimed Creative Writing program at the University of Houston.
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I learned a new fact about love that day: it could kill. Sometimes it kills instantaneously.
The book describes Ramayana in the words of Sita or better call it Sitayan. I sensed the similar feministic nature of the presentation as I had discovered in ‘The Palace of Illusions‘.
The unavoidable truth that lies beneath is well uncovered and put in place as someone has fixed the scattered pieces of a puzzle. The amazement is the ability with which a well-known story is put up without distorting the history or without molding the curvature of the Great Epic of Hindu religion and still so exciting.
This, being not my first novel by C. Divakaruni, is a fantastic work portraying the love, duty, confusion, misunderstanding, plight, and endless sorrow of Sita, the protagonist. Each female character in Ramayana has been articulated as perfectly as one can understand.
I really loved this great epic of the world in a manner displayed to me, a tragic love story. At various points, I was more furious than Sita but it has been very well balanced by the author. A book that would be a guide for the daughters and sisters of our generations and many yet to come for teaching them to stand high for their beliefs, self-respect, and values.
I forgave you a long time ago, I say to Ram. Though I didn't know it until now. Because this is the most important aspect of love, whose other face is compassion; it isn't doled out, drop by drop. It doesn't measure who is worthy and who isn't. It is like the ocean. Unfathomable. Astonishing. Measureless.
CORE- Collection Of Refined Endeavours 