TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arun Sharman
TI  - SKYLIGHTS : : A Novel
SN  - 9788193211106
U1  - F 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - Canada
PB  - Prowess
KW  - Fiction
N1  - New book on male sexual abuse survivors' trauma
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LITERALLY AND METAPHORICALLY UNPUTDOWNABLE

Literally and metaphorically “SKYLIGHTS” is a journey that nose rounds into the lives of people that they desperately attempt to conceal. There is Ramkhilawan the rustic, bucolic boy, victim of conspiracy,  awed, scandalized and in the deal made city savvy in fast forward mode, as he finds a unique past time in peeping through the skylights by accident. He becomes privy to all the covert indulgences of various dramatis persona from diverse walks of life, in the roller-coaster narration of unputdownable story. The revelations maul the innocence of the child by exposing him to all that for which his tender mind is not ripe enough to assimilate.

Shardul, the city boy too is growing up with the village lad in his own home. The camaraderie of the two is not affected by the diverse background, albeit he too cannot escape the loss of his innocence.

The author dissects the psyche both of the two boys and the society and exposes all the chinks in the armors of the hypocrisy of society. A master story teller, Arun Sharma, blends grandma’s simplicity and contemporary craft of storytelling to metaphorical peek into the social citadels of protean forms. And by Joe, he succeeds with élan! In the era of satellites he truly takes us on a rollercoaster ride to a breathless joy of fascinating detumescences! Rightly said, one has to grow his own life, so do the two boys and in the process share fascinating tales all along their journey, aptly narrated by the author. Indeed they might erroneously be termed amative, but then is anyone free from such influences?
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