Book Review on The Night of Broken Glass by Feroz Rather

The Night of Broken Glass by Feroz Rather is a debut novel with a collection of inter – related short stories and a heart wrenching work of fiction.

The main concept of the book whirls around chain of stories that happens in the lives of Kashmir’s mankind. The book takes us on a terrific journey of 13 stories with characters that moves in and moves out throughout the tale.  

One can sense a mix of love, lust, blood, bullet, hatred, revenge etc., that makes the reader engaging. Some stories are fast paced and some are bit dragging and yet a book filled with sorrow and death lurking in Kashmiri’s life.

“A living hell” what can be more described about the lives of these peoples. About the characters Inspector Masoodi a man of living danger, Major S a man of horror, Gulam a cobbler who craves for his son’s love faces insult from the Force 10, the army soldiers.  Jamshid son of Gulam ought to be a scholar loves Rosy an upper caste girl who faces a miserable fate of death. And many more characters filled with emotions of remorse and revenge at each story level.

Even during the curfew times people still have faith, love and friendship are some of the best highlights in the book.

Now coming to certain aspect of the book, the cover looks beautiful and the title is intriguing. The language is good and crisp. A warning to readers, this book has a smell of death and sorrow; fragile heart’s please stay away.

My rating is 4 stars for this dark read.