Book Review #65: Surrogate Author - Authdas Journey of Nine Months Book Delivery By Santosh Avvannavar and Shilpa S.Patil

Title: Surrogate Author - Authdas Journey of Nine Months Book Delivery!

Authors: Santosh Avvannavar, Shilpa S. Patil

Publishers: Hoeffen

Genre: Non-Fiction/Writing

Pages: 40 odd pages

Source: Review Copy by Author

This is a short and sweet book I must say. It has a great material inside that could actually help the budding authors with its creative ideas and narration. It hardly takes 20 minutes to read this book, but, the idea it inculcates among the readers is exceptional. As an aspiring writer myself, I had gained a positive insights into the writing and how to build and propagate an idea of writing.

This book has a conversational type story. And, the conversation has been adopted on the lines of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s hit movie Devdas, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit. There are changes to the names, the themes and the props. Devdas has become Authdas here in this story. And just like Devdas finding his lost love with Paru. Here, Authdas tries to bring his lost interest of writing his unfinished novel Paro!!

The Authdas (Author-das) here in this novel finds inspiration to write his unfinished novel Paro. However, he seeks the help of Chandramukhi. He tries all his might to write it short, in a periodic time frame to finish his novel. But, Paro was moved into a different house!! Dejected Authdas lost his cool and seeks help from anyone to find his lost love.

The book has 2 sections in it. The first section speaks about the conversation of Authdas with various characters and his never dying intentions about writing his unfinished novel Paro. In 2^nd section of the book, there are some tips and tricks for every aspiring author on how to write. It has some good information about how to start a character, how to develop a character, how to imagine the surroundings and how to write the associate character etc… 

The authors have juxtaposed Authdas with that of a surrogate mother who has to bear 9 months to give birth to a child. This horrendous task of Authdas writing his unfinished novel Paro is as difficult as giving birth to a surrogate child!

It is surprisingly impressive to write such a short book, yet make an impact to its readers. Though this book is short and to the point, the movie style narration of Authdas juxtaposing with Devdas is a cracker. I enjoyed reading it. I was kept on reminded about the movie Devdas, while I read about Authdas. This book is a total fun to read! A must read!

Note: I received this book from the author in exchange of an honest review.

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My Rating:
4/5