The Purgatory of Half Forgotten Riddles is a book by author John A. Raju which I read recently . I don't know how to describe the book for my words may fail to capture its depth .
The story from the very first page has this quite way of narration , the type I truly feel connected too. Though it's a fiction but written in first person narrative as a journal of life events. The protagonist talks a lot about what is going on inside his mind , trying to come to a comprehension .
The flow of criss crossing thoughts at each moment when he sees his emotionally detached father , his love for him , the adjustment with the fact that he never saw his mother , his father's unnatural death , his first love, childhood friendships and bringing his own family up with Rachel which is still not at a stable point .
But the twist at the end totally turns up the plot by 180 degrees . It was so unexpected and unconventional. More than all the twists ,
I loved how author has actually used this fiction to convey his thoughts about life , the way one self introspects , the long thought process inside our minds. Few of us do get flown away with our thoughts trying to find real truth behind smallest of things , that our thoughts become to strings and start to weave a quilt made of thousands of unexplained questions and half achieved answers and we carry it on us till the end .
Just like that this fiction though may come under suspense / mystery genre but it runs way deeper than that and it is philosophical in nature.I recommend it to people who like reading books that are more like soliloquy and who are thinkers willing to go beyond dive deeper than the shallowness of life.
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Do you consider yourself a thinker who often thinks about real meaning of life or ultimate truth ? Do you write your thoughts in diary ?
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I surely do.
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