Author: Shivdutt
Sharma
Publisher: India
Impressions
Rating: 3/5
Blurb
A mango ensures the birth of a son…
Ghosts hoot and cackle in a forest…
A tiger strikes terror in the heart
of a village…
A boy experiences the first
stirrings of desire…
On trips back to his hometown,
memories appear, cling, and then fade away like the mist in the Himalayan
foothills. Tracing the pangs and pleasures of growing up during the time of
missionary schools, wind-up gramophones, hand-pulled designer rickshaws,
maharanis in their imitation castles, busty film stars of the black-and-white
era – a lone, all-brown boy in an all-white American school comes to grips with
his coming of age.
Fast-paced and furiously funny, The
Hill Billy zips up the otherwise tranquil, languid, laid-back life in a hill
station that hasn’t quite got over the hangover of its British past.
My
opinion
‘The Hilly Billy’ is basically a
memoir/ autobiography of the author. Reading this book is more like walking
down the memory lane and re-experiencing your childhood. The cover of the book
is apt. The blurb is catchy. The best feature of the book is the division and
presentation of content in the form of short chapters that are easy to read and
time friendly.
The font (style and size) are fine.
Happiness lies in smaller things- and this book proves this correct. Another
positive aspect of this book is the use exemplary vocabulary. But this might
come as a negative point for the not-so-avid-readers. Acting like a cherry on
the cake, are the real life experiences that the readers can find interesting
and relate with.
Overall, a new concept to savor the
reading buds of your mind.
Best wishes to the author!
Drawbacks
There are punctuation errors which
can be spotted time and again. The use of Hindi Dialogues could have been avoided
as not all find this inclusion interesting.
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Review copy: Provided by Anuj- Kalamos Literary Services
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