The gift by Sourabh Mukherjee

​"The gift" by Sourabh Mukherjee - Predictable !

This e-book is published by Shrishti publishers and distributors in 2018 and has 28 pages. This is a book in ‘It’s all about love’ series. 

After his pregnant live-in girlfriend dumps Aarav, he travels to the ancestral home to complete his

first novel based on the life and diary entries of his uncle, who closed his extremely successful business to live a quiet life in the mountains. The housekeeper of ancestral house has ’found’ a kid. 

Why did the girlfriend dump him? Why did his uncle give up successful business? Who is the kid? What is the gift?

It’s a short story narrated in first person by the  protagonist, Aarav. More often than not, a short story becomes effective not because of the literary value but because of author succeeding to surprise the readers and delivering the unexpected. 

This story fails on that front. The story is predictable. Readers can easily guess what happens next and what will happen in the end. There are no twists, no surprises, nothing unexpected. 

So one wonders ‘what was that?’ Short Length of the book is actually a blessing. 

Why did I read this book? Length. 

What did I like? Length.

What I didn't like? Predictability.  

Give it a miss!