Time and a Cyclone is an English novel written by S.N.Sudharsan. Sudharsan is freelance writer, carnatic singer & works as software engineer at Infosys, Chennai. The novel hit the stands cross all the leading bookstores in Chennai and Bangalore in Aug, 2004. The novel is also available at India's largest online shopping portal Fabmall.com Time and a Cyclone has received a omination for the prestigious literary award "The Man Booker Prize-2005" The novel is in the fray for the award which will be announced this October. Time and a Cyclone has generated more heat after the December 26th Tsunami, because of the uncanny coincidence and exact visual description it bears to a real tsunami which strikes a fictional place called Adiokentha in the novel. The front cover shows, the disturbing scene of the ravaged town of Dhanushkodi, with its attractive and shallow lagoon of Bay of Bengal. The town was devastated by the severe cyclone of 1964. Dhanushkodi is the inspiration for the fictional place Adiokentha in which the novel is set.
Simple language has been used and the characters are well described which makes it easier for the readers to visualize them. Reading this book was a pleasurable experience. The book describes the quest of two people Ram & Sri. Will they be successful in their mission? What is their mission? You’ll have to read the book to find out :-)
To give you a feel of the book, here’s an excerpt from the book
"...For a minute even the wind stopped blowing. I experienced a dead silence; nobody shouted for help. The waves weren't to be heard, nor was the wind. It was the silence of the cemetery, absolute silence and for the first time in my life I heard the sound of Death..."
Happy reading J :-)
2 comments:
Good One! But I guess a bit more information about the book e.g. what exactly this book realtes too , the actual genre e.g. a thriller or a kind of incindence reporting etc could have been a bit more enlightening.:-)
It's not reality, it's fiction. You have a cyclone as the backdrop, so it's written pretty much like a thriller ;-)
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