Book Review: Lost Men by Rajorshi Chakraborti
I might as well begin here, because this story is about nothing else.With an extraordinary cover, Lost Men is a collection of ten stories including a novella. Each of the stories in this collection encounters its characters at moments when they are floundering, some in the wake of crisis, others on the verge of major discovery. Each one asks in a different situation - what do people find when they are utterly lost? The fast and fluid narrative of the introductory story Knock, Knock itself sets the mood of the entire collection that also contains stories like The Good Boy and Lost Men. In Knock, Knock and almost all subsequent stories in this collection, Rajorshi Chakraborti guides the reader through the bizarre and dream like experiences of the protagonists and leaves him there to ponder about what next.
But despite the unhappy nature of this particular dream, I said to Sharmistha, I love the nights when I fall asleep and Jane shows up, saying or doing stuff that I haven't seen before. Surprisingly, autonomously.
Strangely, I added, it doesn't happen that often.The prose in this collection is consistently lucid and elegant but to the casual reader, individual stories might seem to have an abrupt ending. The collection requires well deserved concentration from the reader until they get themselves swallowed into this powerful world, in which, the characters face the weird and the worrisome, the guilt and the loss, and the anxiety of misplaced lives that have shifted from the controlled trajectory. These stories are clever, dark, humorous and often absurd but nevertheless, they succeed in creating unforgettable impressions of uncontrollable situations.
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Good Read. I had received the review copy from Hachette India. Thank you Hachette India for giving me this opportunity. You can buy this book at Flipkart in case you live in India.
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