Book:
The Chronicle of Golgotha Days
Author:
Sujith Balakrishnan
Publisher:
Frog Books (Leadstart Corp)
The patriarchal society we live in treats
women as commodities and we have multiple examples they have been mistreated.
The Chronicles of Golgotha Days by Sujith Balakrishnan is the story of Abhaya, a sixteen-year-old
girl, who is abducted and forced into a life of endless torment. Living in a
new hell each day, she swings between torture and death, but living with a hope
that she’ll find her way back home one day. The book explores her story and her
journey as it progresses. Is she able to do that and escape her captivity, or
is she doomed to spend the rest of her life like this, read the book to find out?
The Chronicles of Golgotha Days has been written from a first-person perspective of Abhaya and how the
world seems to her from a sixteen-year-old girl’s perspective. How gullible a
person is at that age and how her own follies lead to her pitiable state forms
the story. The plot moves on to describe her experiences and how she faces
torture through hands of men, and whether such people are worthy of being
called men. Moving from place to place across towns and states, we journey
through the transformation of an innocent girl to a tortured woman. The plot of
the book is interesting but the length of it seems to drag towards the end. The
concept of the book is good, but the hold over the reader is missing and thus
it fails to amaze in that context. It is tagged as a thriller and a suspense
book but again, that part does not show up in the story. The torture part is
described vividly and that will make you cringe at points and that is one good
point in the book. The climax was not effective and deserved a better treatment
than what was given out.
Talking about the characters, the character
of Abhaya goes under a transformation throughout the book and that has been
taken up nicely. The character of Guru has been created in detail and we can
see how the author has taken time to imbibe the necessary traits in him. The other
characters are made nicely as well, but while some of them are memorable, the
others fade off the moment you turn the page.
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