About PHOENIX by Mandira Mazumder:
The Romantic Thriller novel “Phoenix” in Kindle Format, consisting of 120 Chapters, transcends genre boundaries. The book is multi-layered and explores different dimensions of life.
It is a fiction inspired by a BBC True Crime report on TV years back.
The story, which depicts a timeless love between Latha & Kiyash, begins with the life journey of Latha since her girlhood in a humorous style. The implicit purpose is to lay bare the general upbringing of a girl child in the South Asian zone, mainly focused on small-town Indian society.
As the storyline progresses, we discover a deep friendship bond between the two young engineering students from the same college as in Eric Segal’s “Love story” protagonists.
However, the romantic saga grows darker when this genuine friendship blossoms into love.
The pensive mood intensifies as the young lady feels skeptical about the outcome of her life choice, her life partner & her engineering career. Her oppressive family atmosphere smothers her freedom of space with every passing year.
Besides, the girl grew up witnessing and hearing macabre tales about her grandfather. The family saga reveals generations of criminal history where they nip disobedience in the bud with exemplary brutality.
Latha tries to ride over the fears. In a very organic way, her passionate rendezvous with Kiyash turns beautifully erotic amidst nature.
Nevertheless, their daring adventures are intriguing because they happen under high secrecy due to their fractured and conventional society, which has “Love laws,” especially for women’s personal decisions.
The novel revolves around the complications and conflicts arising from Latha & Kiyash’s soul connection and social sanction. The girl’s family grows vicious and threatening.
When the love story gets busted, all hell breaks loose in the toxic family where the affluent father reigns. The Patriarch puts the young lady under house arrest and stalls her education.
Latha’s treacherous life journey reveals how class barriers and social apartheid loom large within a vicious community where women are pawns. The girl dares to do the impossible through her brave and intelligent actions.
She breaks down her cage and flies away to an unknown zone with her lover to save her soul from her criminal family. In her hideout, she plans actions in a bid to write her destiny and finds employment. Yet, the respite of the couple is temporary.
Mr. Adhirai, the girl’s politically influential father, deploys the cops and the goons in their hot pursuit. So, the news of secret marriage feeds fat to the man’s hatred when the lovers go untraced.
Aadhi commands his anti-social son to hunt the lovers down with the help of his notorious friends. The suspense intensifies as the young couple proves to be more innovative.
Once discovered in the boy’s country home as a happy wife who found employment, Aadhi’s nocturnal visits and emotional blackmails become the family’s despair. Summoned to the cops, Latha faces her fears.
Aadhi diplomatically bids his time to deal with a deadly strike when the iron is hot.
There are unimaginable family plots, persecutions, and politics that threaten their future career and dreams. Fear stalks the girl’s life. Yet, Latha must grow out of it.
They abduct her to an obscure zone to control her mind. The young lady fights one-handed and wins her battle though battered and terrorized.
Finally, the cataclysm strikes. Latha finds her lovenest razed to the ground.
The story is an insane journey of a woman struggling for her love and freedom.
The drama intensifies with the involvement of the media and police. Latha fights her lone battle though she is too traumatized to venture out of her house and loses her job. What strange forces enable her to awaken her sense of survival?
A novel that thrills the reader at every crossroad and hooks him on to the next chapter.
It is also about Latha’s phoenix-like rising from her ashes. It is an epic journey of her Empowerment, and the story is a graphic picture and psychological study of South Asian society.
Let Love Prevail and Christ be Reborn.
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Author Bio:
My author’s Journey began in my adolescence, like “Anne Frank,” writing my diary, & talking to it as my secret friend.
I had been a caged bird from a highly conservative background. My family expected me to conform to the mandatory rules of a girl child. I was loved and taken care of, but at the cost of my freedom as a human being. So I voiced my ideas through short stories and articles in my school and college magazines.
During the ’80s, the Indian middle-class society was at crossroads of transformation like the western society during the’50s. Women were coming out of their closets, yet not entirely free to decide. They expected us to be “good girls”: educated, elegant, sober, and sweet, but with no opinion.
My woman’s voyage was challenging during the 80s and 90s. Today, I am an English teacher in Senior Secondary classes. I have also been a Communicative English guest lecturer at Indira Gandhi National Open University.
I read books of all kinds I could find in the library to know the world beyond. I kept maintaining my diary. Yet my wings were clipped when I was socially married at 20. I had to slog and care for my baby girl during the daytime. I did my secret studies at night to complete my university degree. My husband was far away, posted.
My completion of post-graduation in English is a story of sweat and blood.
Eventually, I became an English teacher at the High School level and a guest lecturer at a reputed Open University in India. Those years of teaching enabled me to learn more about the English language and literature.
Later, small magazines in India published my articles.
But my big break arrived in 2013 when Ezine started publishing my short memoirs, articles, stories, travel writing, and reviews until 2017. They honored me with an Expert Author certificate in 2014.
My writing stopped because of some personal tragedy that beset my life in 2018. To overcome my melancholia, I enrolled in Creative writing classes with the British Council in my city. They certified me with A+ and Excellence in my overall performance in 2019.
After that, the Pandemic broke out in April 2020. The chaos and house- arrest became my reason to wake up to my writing call. I finished my inspirational stories, edited them myself, and published them on Amazon at the end of the year. Even Caged Birds Sing” happened.
Thanks to the lockdowns, I continued my second novel,” Her Untamed Soul,” published in 3 parts.
“Phoenix” is a fine-edited version of the previous novel in one part. Though on Crime & Love, it is multi-layered and rich in content.
In 2022, the author received the “Asian Literary Award” from Aesthetics International at the 5th Global Leadership Summit.
I hope to reach out to my human stories, my fiction and nonfiction writings, based on real-life to my readers abroad worldwide. Universal tales about humanity must resonate with all.
Cheers to the voice of the heart! Cheers to my readers. Love:)