Book Review: Tell Me A Story

Book: Tell Me a Story

Author: Rupa Bajwa

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Price: Rs.399

Set partly in the small, buzzing town of Amritsar and partly in New Delhi, this is the story of Rani, a young Indian woman who enjoys her work in a local beauty parlour, loves telling bedtime stories to her little nephew, and is blissfully in love with Shah Rukh Khan, the movie star. However, her naturally happy disposition is marred by the real world. Her lower middle-class family lives in a state of constant struggle - to make ends meet, to hang on to their dreams, to keep their fragile lives from collapsing. However, as their financial troubles escalate, so do Rani's sister-in-law's taunts, brother's frustration and father's resignation. Rani's stories dry up. And her solitary journey of love and loss begins. Random events happen that affect each of them, changing their lives forever, and Rani finds herself in Delhi, in a sudden head-on collision with a world completely alien to her. She finds an unlikely ally in her employer, Sadhna, a stalled novelist, who has been unable to function in a savage literary marketplace.

Source: IANS

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