Review: Promises of a Firefly

Promises of a Firefly by Anupam Patra
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Blurb -

A blind girl’s chance meeting with a stranger sets her on an unforgettable journey of love and light; a loveless marriage is rebuilt by the very thing that is meant to destroy it; an estranged mother’s fight to reunite with her daughter reveals to her the strengths and flaws of bonds of blood, two women separated by years of hostility discover the many forms of heaven and hell as fate decides to redeem their relationship; an eighty year old man’s chronicle of love and loss that tells us all about the permanent consequences of choosing against our heart’s will. These are stories of promises and letdowns, of faith and betrayal, of sins and atonement; stories that introduce us to lovers, bravehearts, convicts and prostitutes. ‘Promises of a firefly’ binds together eleven tales that remind us of our gifts, our glories and the crushing limits of our lives.

My views -    

Promises of a firefly by Anupam Patra is a pocket book with wonderful collections of eleven short stories. Every story has a very strong story line based on our emotions, unrecognized feelings and so on.

Also all the stories are very connective to most of us as it sounds like a story we heard through a friend or a story happened to our neighbour. One such story is "Lilly" it's about a girl who is abandoned by father because she's girl. Yeah, you can hear these kind of stories from your elders because its common at that time.

"The stranger" were a writer in search of story and who himself believe his story is fulfilled love story, in one occasion he happened to meet a lady who thought him unfilled love and vanished.

Like that "A pair of sunshine" narrator of the story survives in a accident in which he looses his best friend, the expression of guilt and pain is extraordinary.

While turning each page I can feel the writer's hard work and he covered that so well with ease. It's surely a worth reading in all perspectives. You can learn, indulge in between the stories, smile, cry all together it makes a great read and one of the best anthology I had ever read.

Also, the cover it is simple yet I found it as beautiful and best suited one.

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