What the book says:
In the middle of the catastrophic 2008 recession, Aditya, a
jobless, penniless man meets an attractive stranger in a bar. Little does he
know that his life will change forever.
When Radhika, a young, rich widow, marries off her stepdaughter, little does she know that the freedom she has yearned for is not exactly how she had envisioned it.
They say homing pigeons always come back to their mate, no matter where you leave them on the face of this earth. The Homing Pigeons is the story of love between these two unsuspecting characters as it is of lust, greed, separations, prejudices and crumbling spines.
About the Author:
A hotelier by education, an ex-banker and a senior executive in the outsourcing industry, Sid gave up a plush career in the outsourcing industry to follow his passions. Based out of Ranikhet, he is now a struggling entrepreneur and a happy writer. A self- proclaimed eccentric, he is an avid blogger who loves to read and cook. Cooking stories, however, is his passion. The Homing Pigeons is his debut novel. He can be reached at sidd.bahri@gmail.com
The Review
To begin with this is one book that has made me miss my
metro station twice and the bus stop once. Yes, that is the kind of interest it
builds in the reader. The book talks about love, lost and found and then lost
again. It’s about two individuals and their journey of love, well not just love
but life too. Love is just the more important aspect out here. The story begins
with Aditya, a man in his thirties living jobless in the times of recession and
Radhika, a rich widow who has absolutely nothing to do. While Aditya is too
tired of surviving on his wife’s income, Radhika isn’t actually enjoying the
freedom she has earned after the death of a husband who was eighteen years
older to her. Even after years of separation there is a void in their lives,
they haven’t been able to fall out of love. Radhika still loves Aditya and so
does Aditya but will they be able to meet? Will the misunderstandings give way
to a new relation? Will the emptiness of such a long duration get filled? Will
the mess in their lives clear up? Take a ride in their past to know how their
present helps form a future.
Creating suspense in a romantic fiction is something we need
to learn from Sid Bahri. You won’t be bored reading it. The swiftness, the flow
in the story is mind blowing. Each phase brings a new direction to the story.
The best part of the book is that we get to know the side of both the parties
which is generally not the case. The book is either narrated in the first
person or the third but here, the good part is both the characters speak. We
know what they feel. Being a male, expressing a woman’s feelings in such an
amazing way is something the author has done very well. As a debutante, the
work is definitely A+. Not even once would you feel that this is someone’s
debut work.
