Title of the book: Aadujeevitham
Name of the author: Benyamin
When sorrows fill our thoughts, tears spill out, when life spill out from a book, the reader gets its tears. Benyamin’s Aadujeevitham is one such book which is full of life and spill tears from our eyes…...which will fill our minds with thoughts, helps us to appreciate the conditions we live in and look at life on a positive note.
Benjamin’s hero Najeeb is a youngster, recently married, who too dream of Gulf with all the expectations of an average Malayalee.To work in a good environment, sent money back home and bring luxury to an average household ……when the family pushes him for it, he couldn’t resist. In Gulf however he got trapped .He was driven to a desert where he was assigned to look after goats and camels under a “brutal Arab”. In a country where he does not know the language, places or people, he was far away from any human interactions. His days were days of extreme sufferings. No proper food, no shelter, no facilities for basic human needs. Slowly and steadily he started identifying himself with goats. He considered himself as one of them and talked to them, ate with them, slept with them and lived the life of a goat.
The story as mentioned in the book is based on a real life experience. The author interviewed and extracted the best out of the person who suffered the life of Najeeb and mixed it with a lots of thoughts and imaginations to make it a reading experience and positively different.
BOOK REVIEW
Ms. ALEENA JAMES, SDE,
GSHSS SULTHAN BATHERY
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