The Killing Of An Author: Review

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What will you do as you enter into the publishing capital New York as an aspiring writer? You must have finished your first authentic literary masterpiece. You must have appraised for it by the criticizing first hand editors. But alas, the dilemma arises as you try selling your text to the American publishers.

Your frustration rises as you get rejected at each instance and you decide to write a book on your own experience. The outcome becomes a literary classic in its own genre that is none other than The Killing Of An Author.

Richard Crasta's The Killing Of An Author is an autobiographical thriller. As the name of the text indicates, the plot deals with the efforts of the rebellious Indian writer to establish him in the publishing capital. The story happens partly in India and partly in New York. The protagonist in this novel is Jackie Kennedy and the plot is his suicide pact after an appraising literary career. The mystery behind the suicide pact is revealed as the story progresses.

An autobiographical thriller in itself is a new literary genre in itself. The author tells that it is not a novel since he has used the real names and characters all over the book. The book in that case is notable for the true feelings of raw emotion, pain, desire, anger and a feeling of injustice that any Indian author can experience at New York.

The Killing Of An Author is an excellent immigrant story with a blend of history, a corrective to the myths, the delusions, and the fantasies sold by the media. The text reveals the pains and pangs of the normal Indian writer in America unlike the works of well-educated upper middle class immigrant writers. The novel is partly tragedy and partly comedy. From the time you read the first pages of the book, you may not feel like setting it aside. The Killing Of An Author will make you think, laugh, cry and touch your innermost soul.