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Amrita is forced to submit to an arranged marriage though she loves another. As long as she remains the image of glorified Indian womanhood, she blends into the background. She grows corns standing on the pedestal and steps down to do what pleases her. A few breaths of unfettered air were all she could take before her virtue is irrevocable stained by an unsuitable lover. All too soon, the price of illicit love exceeds its pleasures. Her parents condemn her, her sons despise her, and her husband tightens the net of matrimony despite her infidelity. There is shame and blame and a devouring isolation. In an attempt to retain her sanity, she flees to the Himalayas. In those lofty reaches, she finds a startlingly simple solution to her problems?she has to look inwards for the peace that eluded her. No one else could give her that.
- English
English
PRIZE
The 1st chapter won a prize among 1700 applicants in a competitIon arranged by oxfordbookstore.com
REVIEWS
RECOMMENDED (10-20% of outstanding books get RECOMMENDED) by the US Review
Reviewed by Wendy Strain
Filled with rich imagery, beautiful prose, and an occasional poem to more fully express overwhelming emotional moments, this is the story of a woman torn between fulfilling the ideals she was raised to believe in and answering an internal need to experience life to greater depth.
When one is choked of all joy and possibility in life, is it better to grab for the oxygen mask or allow oneself to die? In presenting her story, the narrator here poses these questions without apology or justification.
Pacific Book Review
Reviewed by: Tiffany Ezuma
Semi-autobiographical, this novel pulls on the author’s experiences to build a rich, wholly developed character in Amrita. She is a protagonist we see grow from the start of the novel all the way to the last page. Her journey feels unique to her particular circumstances, but at the same time, there are bits and pieces most women could pull examples from their own lives, understand and relate to and learn from.
This is a book which will be remembered long after finishing…
Book Extract: For the Love of a Man
Amrinder Bajaj
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 26, 2016 BY DIFFERENT TRUTHS (e magazine read in over 116 countries) by Arindam Roy
The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry to their graves with sealed lips. The first chapter of this book won a prize amongst 1700 entries for being one of the best 1st chapters of an unpublished novel in a contest held by oxfordbookstore.com.
A tale of triumph
Posted on 29/01/2017 by Dailyexcelsior – the largest circulated daily of Jammu and Kashmir
Reviewed by Sunny Dua
Advocating feminism, the book revolves around how a woman singlehandedly takes on worst of the situations head-on and emerges strong enough to raise her children, stay in a muck-like marriage, discharges her responsibilities and simultaneously makes a career. These five lines of book speak of themselves:
After elusive shadows, long I ran, never again, will I crave the love of a man.
From now on it just my dog and me; and a book beneath a shady tree.
… had she found a shoulder to lean on, this book would have ceased to exist.
QUOTE
"It has been said that the loss of someone you love is not the greatest loss a person suffers; losing yourself in that person and forgetting that you are special too, is your greatest loss. Long had I been enslaved to one who did not value my worth. Now that I had broken free, I experienced the exhilaration of liberty. Never again would I endure so much for the love of a man. It simply wasn't worth the price I had to pay."
The 1st chapter won a prize among 1700 applicants in a competitIon arranged by oxfordbookstore.com
REVIEWS
RECOMMENDED (10-20% of outstanding books get RECOMMENDED) by the US Review
Reviewed by Wendy Strain
Filled with rich imagery, beautiful prose, and an occasional poem to more fully express overwhelming emotional moments, this is the story of a woman torn between fulfilling the ideals she was raised to believe in and answering an internal need to experience life to greater depth.
When one is choked of all joy and possibility in life, is it better to grab for the oxygen mask or allow oneself to die? In presenting her story, the narrator here poses these questions without apology or justification.
Pacific Book Review
Reviewed by: Tiffany Ezuma
Semi-autobiographical, this novel pulls on the author’s experiences to build a rich, wholly developed character in Amrita. She is a protagonist we see grow from the start of the novel all the way to the last page. Her journey feels unique to her particular circumstances, but at the same time, there are bits and pieces most women could pull examples from their own lives, understand and relate to and learn from.
This is a book which will be remembered long after finishing…
Book Extract: For the Love of a Man
Amrinder Bajaj
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 26, 2016 BY DIFFERENT TRUTHS (e magazine read in over 116 countries) by Arindam Roy
The book For the Love of a Man is a heavily fictionalized account of her life that lays bare taboo subjects like female sexuality, exposing what right-thinking people would carry to their graves with sealed lips. The first chapter of this book won a prize amongst 1700 entries for being one of the best 1st chapters of an unpublished novel in a contest held by oxfordbookstore.com.
A tale of triumph
Posted on 29/01/2017 by Dailyexcelsior – the largest circulated daily of Jammu and Kashmir
Reviewed by Sunny Dua
Advocating feminism, the book revolves around how a woman singlehandedly takes on worst of the situations head-on and emerges strong enough to raise her children, stay in a muck-like marriage, discharges her responsibilities and simultaneously makes a career. These five lines of book speak of themselves:
After elusive shadows, long I ran, never again, will I crave the love of a man.
From now on it just my dog and me; and a book beneath a shady tree.
… had she found a shoulder to lean on, this book would have ceased to exist.
QUOTE
"It has been said that the loss of someone you love is not the greatest loss a person suffers; losing yourself in that person and forgetting that you are special too, is your greatest loss. Long had I been enslaved to one who did not value my worth. Now that I had broken free, I experienced the exhilaration of liberty. Never again would I endure so much for the love of a man. It simply wasn't worth the price I had to pay."
