PARROT UNDER THE PINE TREE : Book Review
Parrot Under the Pine Tree
is a love story written by Surendra Pratap Singh. Let me at the very outset
clarify that the title of the book has little to do with the story. However,
the name correctly creates the impression of what kind of a read one must
expect from the book. Parrot Under the
Pine Tree is story of a guy named, Vedanta, and his soul mate, Saranga who
meet in a village during a visit – often their names expressed as Ved and Sara.
The story begins with a brilliantly
beautiful description of the village named Kausani near Himalayas where a
number of tourists arrive each year. Much of the story is based in the very
village. Almost all the chapters of the book begin with lovely description of nature,
making the novel soothing to read, telling less of story and more of the beauty
of the place it is set in.
Vedanta comes to Kausani in search
of his soul mate and sees Saranga one day sitting under a tree, after a little
suggestion of a hotel receptionist falling for him. Vedanta tries to find out
who the girl is and gets to know about lore of the valley about a haunt.
Finally, he gets to find the girl out and they fall in love.
Vedanta and Saranga marry and
have a child who they name Dhruv. They start living in Bangalore and gradually
their passion for each other begins to fade, which leads Ved to commit adultery.
One of the best things about Parrot Under the Pine Tree is its
smoothness of language, with perfect choice of words. It is an example of
professional writing where even the unknown words do not burden the reader. The
flow of the story is smooth. Scenes have been described with perfection. The
story puts forth several ingredients in the beginning which do not get
satisfied till the end.
Overall, the book is a neat
work of fiction, expressing vividly what love means to a man and what it means
to a woman. Several matters which the story touches in the beginning and in the
middle do not satisfactorily conclude. In some ways the book falls short of
expectations that it creates, but is a nice read nonetheless, and one of the best love stories I have read so far (I rarely read love stories).
I would suggest every reader of
the Romance genre to pick Parrot Under the Pine Tree for once and experience the beauty of a type of love story
which hardly anybody tells anymore.
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