Review: A Voyage Called Life
About The Book A Voyage Called Life, a collection of eight short stories, doesn't showcase a perfectionist approach to life. Life strives for success in all aspects: professional, personal, relations, friendship, and a connection with self. Success is a relative term. In this pursuit of success, man sometimes leaves behind the entity called LIFE. Little do we realize at what cost we have wrenched ourselves free from the grip of life. A bouquet of emotions that sizzle through the stories marks the unity in diversity theme. If one character is low on emotions, another is irresistibly loving and caring; if one is grief-stricken, the other has something to celebrate. The characters are coloured by humour, grief, pleasure, sympathy, disgust, envy, fear, admiration, surprise, and nostalgia. 'Reversal’ is a commentary on life's paradoxes. Strangely, a girl living a luxurious life yearns for a cozy little house where the walls do not separate the inmates. Ironically, the girl livin...
