Wednesday, June 2, 2010

One Amazing Thing by essays Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

By Prasoon Kumar
(Book-Reviews/Fiction)

One Amazing Thing, written by master (FictioN)story teller Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, is the story of a US city (FictiOn)struck by a powerful earthquake.(Fiction) There are nine people trapped in the office located in the basement, which issues passports and visas to India (it is an Indian consulate). If the stuck people try to get out of the place they are in, the remaining part of the building would also be brought down.The end seems inevitable, the infrastructure seems to be giving way, and no rescue efforts seem to be taking place. As the water levels increase, the writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni makes one of the victims says the time can be better passed if everyone talks something about his or her life that hasn't been ever told.

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