Finished reading 'Witness the Night' by Kishwar Desai last week. Its about a 14 yr old girl who is accused of killing 13 of her family members in one night and a 45 yr old spinster social worker trying her very best to save this innocent child...
Sounds heavy right? It definitely was.. considering the controversial topics it covered, the book was beautifully written...the arrangement of scenes and the flow of story was awesome.. Kishwar definitely is a great story-teller...I couldn't help myself reading the book whenever I got shortest possible time..It spell-binds you till you finish it...but yes..its not a book, you will feel happy or peaceful after reading...your mind cant stop tinking about the problems the small child faced and keeps cursing the whole community and yourself (for no reason) for not doing anything about it...
It covers deep and thought-provoking topics like - girl foetus abortion, child pregnancy, girl child abuse, gender discrimination, and an uncontrollable anger generated from this..
Per the satisfaction of nice book reading I would rate it as 3 outa 5. However the storm of thoughts that follows after you finish it...is un-measurable...
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