Each piece of prose is based on one or another emotion. Sometimes there are even multiple emotions that make up the concept of a book. Therefore, clichés are often created that lead readers away from a particular concept.
One of the concepts that has suffered the most is love. Almost every season of books, we see various love stories churned out by well-intentioned writers introducing new and better love stories that are sadly nothing more than the same old wine in a new bottle.
But then comes a book that changes people’s minds about a particular genre, if not revolutionizes the genre and readers. And if ever there was a book of love stories, Love and Other Enchantments of the Fictional Five, it would be one.
Love and Other Enchantments is a collection of stories that look at love in a new light. Traditionally, love stories are about property and we have been brainwashed into thinking that love doesn’t win as long as lovers are together and with each other. It is this concept that the authors of Love and Other Enchantments have tried to change through their book.
This isn’t the first time we’ve read a story of a young couple deciding to end their relationship due to parental or sibling pressure, but it’s definitely something that hasn’t been discussed, at least on a positive note, for a long time. weather. a long long time.
And that’s not the only story that’s a taste of a newer face of love. Every story in the book is about loss as much as it is about love. Don’t the two go hand in hand anyway?
In this age of ‘what the heart wants, the heart wants’ and unabashed hedonism masquerading as personal choice, Love and Other Enchantments delivers a powerful and specific message to all who want to read the book.
Love is eternal and surpasses all other elements in the world. It is much more than two minds or two bodies spending the rest of their lives together. There is no victory or defeat when it comes to love. Love was, is and always will be. Lovers do not decide how long they will spend together. It is providence that does it.
All five writers prove their worth when it comes to character creation and storytelling. It would be interesting to see how they would fare writing a full book. If we go by the book, you’d say none of these would find themselves wanting when the big leagues call.
The writing style of each writer is impeccable and of particular interest is the first story, Till death do us part, by Tanima Kedar, which itself takes the reader into a trance situation. She handles a very difficult love story and the writing style manages to create the right kind of enigma and mystique that would keep the reader hooked.
In the age of love stories that are more or less about the internal struggles people go through to finally achieve what they think is their true love, this is the one book the younger generation should read.
