Book Review 84
Name Of The Book : The Diary On the Fifth Floor
Author : Raisha Lalwani
Publisher : Rupa Publications
Year : 2018
Category : Fiction
Review :
A woman leaves her infant at home but finds her on a busy street in an unexpected turn of events. Another woman wakes up in a flight hours later, befuddled, in the strangest circumstance. A fascinating tale of a twenty-five-year-old woman that takes hold of us from the moment she enters the fifth floor of a hospital; more precisely, the psychiatric ward. Visibly terrified, she clutches at her cloth-bound diary, caught in the horns of a terrible dilemma—whether or not to hand over the diary to the doctor. She fears that she will be declared insane if her tangled web of thoughts unspooling in dark mysterious stories is read by the dissecting eye of a doctor. What does this diary contain? As the novel progresses, we are drawn into characters and stories that are toe-curling, strange, and haunting in their raw intensity. What is the story of this woman? What secrets lie in the pages of her diary? And most importantly, what happens on the fifth floor?
Savannah Khanna is a twenty-five-year-old woman from an affluent family who visits Dr Rama Berry, a renowned psychiatrist, on the fifth floor of a hospital. She shares her diary with the doctor to assist in her diagnosis. The diary leads to life-changing events both for Savannah and Dr Berry. The blurb of this book looked promising and the theme was quite different. I enjoyed the story and I must say that it is an innovative thought, but I felt that the narration, style of writing and selection of words could have been better. It does not do justice to the plot and the theme. The book did not have the emotional depth required for the story. The book contains many short incidents which throw light on the negative traits of human beings. A few of these were good, but the rest I think did not really make the cut. The language is too simple and takes away from the emotional experience of the reader. The end was abrupt and unexpected. It is a short book which I finished in one go. Overall, it is a book with a unique plot but could have been better.
Rating : 3.2/5
Name Of The Book : The Diary On the Fifth Floor
Author : Raisha Lalwani
Publisher : Rupa Publications
Year : 2018
Category : Fiction
Review :
A woman leaves her infant at home but finds her on a busy street in an unexpected turn of events. Another woman wakes up in a flight hours later, befuddled, in the strangest circumstance. A fascinating tale of a twenty-five-year-old woman that takes hold of us from the moment she enters the fifth floor of a hospital; more precisely, the psychiatric ward. Visibly terrified, she clutches at her cloth-bound diary, caught in the horns of a terrible dilemma—whether or not to hand over the diary to the doctor. She fears that she will be declared insane if her tangled web of thoughts unspooling in dark mysterious stories is read by the dissecting eye of a doctor. What does this diary contain? As the novel progresses, we are drawn into characters and stories that are toe-curling, strange, and haunting in their raw intensity. What is the story of this woman? What secrets lie in the pages of her diary? And most importantly, what happens on the fifth floor?
Savannah Khanna is a twenty-five-year-old woman from an affluent family who visits Dr Rama Berry, a renowned psychiatrist, on the fifth floor of a hospital. She shares her diary with the doctor to assist in her diagnosis. The diary leads to life-changing events both for Savannah and Dr Berry. The blurb of this book looked promising and the theme was quite different. I enjoyed the story and I must say that it is an innovative thought, but I felt that the narration, style of writing and selection of words could have been better. It does not do justice to the plot and the theme. The book did not have the emotional depth required for the story. The book contains many short incidents which throw light on the negative traits of human beings. A few of these were good, but the rest I think did not really make the cut. The language is too simple and takes away from the emotional experience of the reader. The end was abrupt and unexpected. It is a short book which I finished in one go. Overall, it is a book with a unique plot but could have been better.
Rating : 3.2/5