The Agony of Love

by Neilay Khasnabish

Srijan Ghose – a frustrated young poet, who fails to get a suitable job – falls in love with Priyam Majumdar, who is reading for an M.A. at Delhi University. In Delhi, Srijan’s elder brother Bijan finds a corporate job for him, but he refuses the job offer as Priyam inspires him to write poetry and to do a Ph.D. at Delhi University. Suddenly, some strange things start happening to him. He is kidnapped twice and tortured to compel him to leave Delhi and Priyam. Meanwhile, his elder brother Bijan asks him to leave his flat. Srijan leaves his flat and finds a job at a garment shop. Now, he has to find out his kidnappers, and if Priyam will marry him.

‘The Agony of Love’ addresses frustration, inspiration, love, greed, violence, jealousy, betrayal, hope, and success. The dimensions of relationships are explored to the core to focus on the colours of life, in the context of the conflict of humanity and inhumanity. This story in the guise of fiction is the offshoot of firsthand experience of life.

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BookGeeks says, '... The crux of the story is very interesting in that it is not generally a sequence of events that you would find in a love story ... Even the style of narration was a bit different from what you would normally see in a book ...'

175 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2013

About the author

Neilay Khasnabish is a fiction writer from India. His writings were published in the U.S. and India in several magazines and newspapers like "The Punch Magazine", "Borderless", "Evocations", "Finding the Birds", "The New North", "The Assam Tribune", and "The Sentinel". He did his M.Tech. at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He can be reached at neilay@outlook.com.

Reviews

[Sonal · Rating 3 out of 5]

They belonged to same religion, caste, status. Loved each other deeply and madly, then who was creating hurdles in their path. Read the story of Priyam and Srijan in The Agony of Love by Neilay Khasnabish.

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[Madhuri Varma · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book through Goodreads’ First Reads giveaway.
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[Megha · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Agony of Love is the debut novel of the author Neilay Khasnabish.It is a love story in which protagonist faces several peaks and valleys from procuring a job to seizing his love.

The title of the book suggests that there are situations which drives the protagonist life in an uneasy way and forces him to catch the stones of dolour around him. The cover shows the two hearts one is inside the bottle and other is outside the bottle tie-up with a wire and a key is encase in the bottle depicts that both the hearts are coupled with each other but are distant from each other.

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