eBook Digital Publication Downloadable for eReaders iPads titled "Rebirth"Authored bySampurna Mishra

Sept. 14, 2012 - PRLog -- Book Title: Rebirth
Author: Sampurna Mishra
Category: Fiction/novella/romance
Book Publishers: Maxcan Image, Pvt.Ltd.
First Edition:
Year Published: Copy Righted 2009
Total Number of Pages: 284
Available in Paper backs, Digital Downloads
Suggested Price: $19.99

It is intriguing as a romantic novel in a gothic background at first reading. For such an unconventional complete fiction, the back jacket reads: …,”And from the moment Avantika takes Ruth’s help to communicate with the mysterious girl and un lock the mystery of her recurring dream, life never remains the same for her. When she plunges into the well of her dreams, her world turns topsy-turvy as she is lead into the days and nights of nineteenth-century Kodaikanal (location-topography) to discover the mission of her birth, the meaning of her existence.”  And in Page 153 in reference to a journal in  the heroine’s Diary, the Hypnotist Ruth speaks up about the altering Avatar of the heroine as, “Avantika, I truly believe that she (Ebony-dream alter ego) is your companion you’re your past life (a shadow soul mate) that has happened in the past….etc.” Based on author’s personal reflections, reminiscences, foreboding dreams, a young female protagonist travels back in time yet in the mind’s eye riding in a Futuristic Time Machine. Fluctuating back drops of ultra modern metropolis like New Delhi, Bangalore to age old destinations of Nainital in the Himalayas to Nilgiri Mountains Range  in the Indian Subcontinent, settings painted in pure lush tropics.   Magical, mythical, lyrical, pithy flowing style alternating in poetic dialogues, deceptively sensuous, alarmingly absorbing, skillfully weaved in suppleness, intricate plots, sub plots glimpsing subterranean recesses of human consciousness, tortuously mysterious reflections in haunting memories. Freudian longings. Exotic locations, Buddhist, Old Biblical Exorcism  Occult and Voodoo ritualistic healings. Psycho Therapy, Hypnotics. Paranormal occurrences, Existential ruminations, Avatar incarnations, Alluring physical vignettes. Characters, drawn from multi cultural interfaith background, engaging in esoterically mystic conversations yet reflecting conflicting human faculties, with strong emotions, afflictions. Interactions among the characters depict human bondage some times in its raw forms. However at the end human spirit triumphs over tragedy almost with a perfect ending- happily ever after Cinderella’s story-and a Gallant Knight rescuing the lady love redeeming all the pathos, heaving sighs, melancholy sojourns, even erasing memories of a life incarnate.
Indeed, the plot gets so dense with morbid feelings, premonitions, near death experiences, casting spells, slanders, scuffles, infatuations, fetishes and perversions, regrets, confessions, trust and loyalty, almost all the characters act with some flight of fantasies. As such the simple message of a college bound girl needing empathy, love, understanding, human warmth, embrace and compassion gets mired in hypnotics and spirit channeling. True friends do matter. Family’s unconditional love and acceptance brings complete healing. Freedom is greater than Heavenly bondage. Finally when the evolutionary awakening takes place for the heroine, it is a great relief to the reader that human spirit is the ultimate rescuer not the blind beliefs, religious dogmas, ritualistic healings or voodoo practices. At the ending a cathartic effect almost an exorcism permeates relief knowing that the author’s sub conscious sojourns in acute dream state gave birth to the different but brilliantly depicted characters in her waking up creative mind..

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Professor Lance Pahi, MA, MBA