Book Reviews by Simran

🌺Book review by Bharat 🌺 Title: Abyss: 1 Author: SABARNA ROY Price: Rs. 113 Format: Paperback Pages: 120 Book link: https://www.amazon.in/Abyss-1-SABARNA-ROY/dp/9381115362/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Abyss is a full-length play in two acts with an interval in between. It is essentially a racy crime thriller full of gritty suspense. Act one builds up slowly to result in a crescendo of conflicts between personalities and ideas finally to end with an unnatural death before the interval. Is it a suicide or a murder? Act two evolves through a series of incisive interrogations to unravel the truth, which is deeply disturbing and affecting. As the play unfolds into a very well crafted situational thriller, underneath is the debate about using the land for agriculture or for industry, the ethics of a working author and the nexus of a modern state all wonderfully enmeshed into its storyline and the personal lives of its subtly etched out characters. The highpoints of t...