HALF TORN HEART (BOOK REVIEW)
BOOK: HALF TORN HEART
AUTHOR: NOVONEEL CHAKRABORTY
Half Torn Hearts is 14th
novel of Novoneel Chakraborty. Novoneel usually writes the suspense and
thriller novel but this novel is quite different from Novoneel’s other books
but definitely a masterpiece.
SYNOPSIS
Shanay Bansal, a young and
successful entrepreneur, is looking forward to his engagement with Afsana
Agarwal. But a few weeks before the engagement, he receives a mysterious voice message
from someone from Afsana’s past. Curious, Shanay plays the voice message and
through those other such messages, a different world from the past opens up about
a beautiful relationship that got broken due to a terrible lie.
PLOT
There are
mainly three characters: Nirmaan, Raisa and Afsana. Nirmaan and Raisa are
childhood, good friends. They meet in the year 1996 in Guwahati. Nirmaan offers
her to play with him and his friends. In the beginning, she doesn’t but later
agrees and becomes good friends. Besides Nirmaan, she doesn’t have friends. She
shares her problems with him.
After six
years, in 2002, they again meet in Kolkata in the school named St. Peter’s
High. In the beginning, he gets surprised to see her. She tells how she gets
admission in the school. Time has been changed and they have grown up but Raisa
doesn’t prefer to change. She wants everything should be like a childish and
doesn’t leave Nirmaan most of the time and he gets irritated. He tries to
explain Raisa that the time is not the same but she doesn’t want to
understand.
During the
school days, she meets Afsana Agrawal and they become good friends. They become
soul sisters; whereas Nirmaan doesn’t like Afsana and tells Raisa to stay away
from Afsana but she hangs out with Afsana. Time passes with hanging out with
each other. They didn’t know that their life could be changing. Raisa fails in
class X whereas Afsana and Nirmaan pass the exam. They get admission in the
same college. With time, both fall in love but they weren’t able to express
their feelings.
On the one
hand, Afsana is in with Nirmaan and on the other hand, her parent has searched
her guy who is ten years elder and her parents want her to marry when she
returns 18. She couldn’t share this with Nirmaan and shares with Raisa. Raisa
is one who makes them together and gets intimacy with him but she doesn’t share
about her so-called soon fiancée.
With time, they
get separated. What is the reason for the separation and why is she getting
married to Shanay? What will Shanay do after knowing the truth?
CONCLUSION
This story has
three main characters and their selfless love and that willingness to destroy owns
self for the person they love. There are quite few many ups and downs in their
life but the way their love has been portrayed it won my heart. Some secrets,
some revelations and then that unexpected climax - everything is just so catchy
that I could not put the book down till I completed reading it. So Half torn
hearts will definitely win many hearts of the readers!! And the most beautiful
part about this book is the Hindi poems in between the story which gave that
storyline the perfect essence of emotions.
While reading
the novel, we can tell that not every relationship is about flowing together
forever. People, who meant the world to us at one time, will seem like a
distant memory at another.
In conclusion, I could say it’s interesting and engaging. It’s a heart crushing story with surprising revelations and a touching climax.
REFERENCE
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43598899-half-torn-hearts
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