His incorporation of colloquial language makes the readers feel nearer to the author, but when they flip through the pages, they experience repulsion, like the two similar poles of a magnet.[break]
The plot changes its speed when the two characters Madankazi and Prateema play hide-and-seek on their verandah.
It seems a mediocre makeup till its third unit, but when readers enter into the fourth unit, their disappointment towards the author rises as they find that the story fails to meet up with their expectations.
Prateema, one of the protagonists, struggles throughout her childhood and youth with a history of several sexual harassments, and that eventually leads her to a troubled psychological state of mind and body whereby she can never quench her thirst for sex.
By the end of the novel, a couple of male characters – including her own cousin brother – have physical relationship with Prateema but those relationships fail to grow into true love within Prateema’s heart as “lust” plays a vital role there. She has impermanence as the essential qualities of a true beauty.
Her great appeal for Madankazi is that her beauty won’t last.
Prateema is not a well-developed character as she even fails to distinguish whom she loves more – Madankazi or Bhusan. Sadhana, the sister of Pratap, is a character similar to Prateema who also becomes the victim of several sexual harassments.
The 102-pages-long novel revolves around the evil intentions of the characters.
It sounds like a boring speech rather than a work of fiction, and the writing is quite monotonous which tries to give a hint of an abstract painting. Rajab’s work is praiseworthy only in the sense that the narrator –most probably the writer himself – seems honest with the readers while sharing his lustful experiences.
Throughout the plot, the writer neither gives a single space to take a breath, nor seems conscious of the readers’ sentiment.
He just keeps on telling an insipid story of ‘romance.’ At the time of reading this novel, a reader easily detects the waning of his dynamism of storytelling.
Rajab’s attempt of producing this type of fiction is nothing more than an unintelligent task.
We can even say that this book has defamed the Communist Party’s hitherto history as he has weighted it out all with lust.
Most of his characters are gullible, and his storytelling is confined to the boundary of abuse, shame, and great dismay.
In addition, it has a pile of technical flaws, and grammatically wrong sentences which question the credibility of the quality measures put into the book.
The repetition of ideas even in the same paragraph repels the readers into the pit of condemnation of the author.
Regarding the issue of sexual offensiveness, there is very little that one can comment on.
The language used in this novel is not explicit. Poorly constructed transitions of paragraphs have made the story more complex and roundabout. There are some poignant scenes in the penultimate section where Pratap compels Prateema to be confined within the four walls of a room.
In addition, some readers can find this book as a time-pass, as almost all the characters, from the very first page of the novel, indulge in lovemaking.
Though the plot throughout the novel revolves around the theme of love and lust, the story is unable to weave a fascinating tale for which the author has been popular in the past.
Numerous readers can presuppose Pratap as a villain though he is the protagonist because the author has failed to give suitable qualities to his characters.
Nonetheless, it is a slim volume; there are even some pages to be skipped over as they have no one-to-one relation with the plot of the story.
The author, by using an ornate language, has made an effort to play a trick to subjugate the readers emotionally and to make them come under his grip; but his entire attempt has gone futile. Rajab’s protagonists lack shrewdness though they are professors and students of a college.
It may not appeal to some readers because of its structural and thematic fluctuations. Much could have been saved if more work was put into editing the manuscript.
One can wonder how the author has convinced his publisher to publish this “book.” On the one hand, it is full of overemotional stuff and ambiguous lines, and on the other, it is quite impossible to rely on the narrator.
It also seems that Rajab has underestimated the readers by judging them in a superficial manner.
The story is woven, taking the concern of lust and discontent. Moreover, it deals with the sexual obsession thematically. Rajab might not have done the work of pornography but it seems so to the readers when they read it.
They rather find it as a cheap romance book that can be purchased from Ratna Park at a cheap price.
Rajab, an acclaimed writer, could have been able to maintain his previously established reputation in contemporary Nepali fiction writing if this book had not been published. Moreover, readers may criticize it as a book with notorious subject matter, as the author has tried to vilify the Communist Revolution.
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