The Village By the Sea

The Village By the Sea is a expressive and intriguing story, one cannot help once one starts reading
it, one can't stop. It draws a reader into a trance as he or she gets more and more curious of what is going to happen next. This is the effect of a good book whose legacy will last on forever.

It begins like this:A story of an Indian family, staying in a village, called Thul, almost 14 miles away form Mumbai one of the most famous cities of India. This family consists of a mother who is very sick and lying in bed all the time, father who drinks all the time and is unable to work due to his hard drinking habit, three sisters and a brother, the two younger sisters who are studying at school, and an elder sister who has stopped going to school due to economical problems, and now looking after the family and a younger brother who also stopped going to school sue to the same reason and is supposed to look after the family.

These two the elder sister and the younger brother are the sole food provider to the family while having nothing behind them or at hand. A very small hut and a small piece of land which is not adequate to make a living on, so the life is very difficult and full of sorrows, to be honest I wept sometimes while reading this novel sometimes because of their tough condition of life and their wisdom and sometimes because of the success of them over something difficult which gave me an inner happiness, victory and joyful tears. This book is really very emotional and sensitive, in fact you should have that feeling other wise you won’t realize it.

The rest of the story continues on, getting more and more interesting, as it follows a fairytale pattern, well, if you really want o find out, you have to read it yourself.