About PHOENIX, Mandira Mazumder
My Romantic Thriller novel “Phoenix” in Kindle Format, consisting of 120 Chapters, transcends genre boundaries. The book is multi-layered and explores different dimensions of life.
The story, which depicts a timeless love between Latha & Kiyash, begins with the life journey of Latha since her girlhood in a humorous style.
The passionate love between Latha & Kiyash reminds one of Eric Segal’s “Love story” protagonists despite different social norms in the two worlds.
However, the Romantic saga gets darker as the young lady feels skeptical about the outcome of her life choice, both about her life partner & her engineering career. Her oppressive family atmosphere smothers her freedom of space with every passing year.
The family narrative reveals generations of criminal history where they nip disobedience in the bud with exemplary brutality.
Latha tries to ride over the fears. In a very organic way, her passionate rendezvous with Kiyash turns beautifully erotic amidst nature.
Nevertheless, their daring adventures are intriguing because they happen under high secrecy due to their fractured and conventional society, which has “Love laws” to curb women’s personal decisions. The glaring class differences dictate these laws.
Their beautiful love story gets busted, and all hell breaks loose in the toxic family of the girl. Latha’s father, the affluent Patriarch, puts her under house arrest and stalls her education.
The girl dares to do the impossible through her brave and intelligent actions.
She breaks down her cage at midnight and flies away to an unknown zone with her lover to save her soul from her criminal family.
Aadhi deploys the cops and the goons in their hot pursuit. So, the news of secret marriage feeds fat to the man’s hatred when the lovers go untraced.
He tells his son to hunt the lovers down with the help of his notorious friends. The suspense intensifies when they cannot trace the couple.
Once discovered in the boy’s country home as a happy wife who found employment, Aadhirai’s nocturnal visits & threats make the family’s life miserable. Latha faces her fears.
The Patriarch diplomatically bids his time to deal with a deadly strike when the iron is hot.
Fear stalks her life. Yet, Latha must grow even when her family batter & terrorize her life.
The story becomes an insane journey of a woman struggling for her love and freedom. The couple swims against the tide to maintain sanity in their world, only to find it razed to dust.
The cataclysm strikes, leaving Kiyash fatally bleeding and Latha on the brink of death.
There are unpredictable twists & turns in her life. The girl evolves from her roller-coaster ride.
The novel turns into a legal thriller—the woman versus the corrupt system. There are scenes from jail; court battles that create thrill and suspense.
Latha’s legal battle for Kiyash transforms into a fight for her husband’s marginalized community and humanity.
She learns to love again in her personal life while fighting a more significant battle for humanity.
A novel that thrills the readers at every crossroad and hooks them on to the next chapter brings up the idea of unforeseeable Court Justice versus Divine Justice.
It is also about Latha’s phoenix-like rising from her ashes. It is an epic voyage of her empowerment that expands into the ascension of humanity.
Love & Humanity, amidst all power struggles, can be the most incredible savior of humankind.
Crime Never Pays.
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Author Bio:
My author’s Journey began in my adolescence like “Anne Frank,” writing my diary, & talking to it as my secret friend😊
I had been a caged bird from a highly conservative background. My family expected me to conform to the mandatory rules of a girl child. I was loved and taken care of, but at the cost of my freedom as a human being. So, I voiced my ideas through short stories and articles in my school and college magazines.
During the ’80s, the Indian middle-class society transformed western society during the’50s. They expected us to be “good girls”: educated, elegant, sober, and sweet, but with no opinion. Women were coming out of their closets, yet not entirely free to decide.
I am an English teacher in Senior Secondary classes. I have also been a Communicative English guest lecturer at Indira Gandhi National Open University.
I read books of all kinds I could find in the library to know the world beyond. I kept maintaining my diary. Yet my wings were clipped when I was socially married at 20. I had to slog and take care of my baby girl during the daytime. I did my secret studies at night to complete my university degree. My husband was far away, posted.
My completion of post-graduation in English is a story of sweat and blood.
Eventually, I became an English teacher at the High School level and a guest lecturer at a reputed Open University in India. Those years of teaching enabled me to learn more about the English language and literature.
Later, an English newspaper in India and other small magazines published my articles.
But my big break arrived in 2013 when Ezine started publishing my short memoirs, articles, stories, travel writing, and reviews until 2017. They honored me with an Expert Author certificate in 2014.
My writing stopped because of some personal tragedy that beset my life in 2018. To overcome my melancholia, I enrolled in Creative writing classes with the British Council in my city. They certified me with A+ and Excellence in my overall performance in 2019.
After that, the Pandemic broke out in April 2020. The chaos and house- arrest became my reason to wake up to my writing call. I finished my inspirational stories, edited them myself, and published them on Amazon at the end of the year. Even Caged Birds Sing” happened.
Thanks to the lockdowns, I continued my second novel,” Her Untamed Soul,” published in 3 parts.
“Phoenix” is a fine-edited version of the previous novel in one part. Though on Crime & Love, it is multi-layered and rich in content.
In 2022, the author received the “Asian Literary Award” from Aesthetics International at the 5th Global Leadership Summit.
I hope to reach out to my human stories, my fiction and nonfiction writings, based on real-life to my readers abroad worldwide. Universal tales about humanity must resonate with all.
Cheers to the voice of the heart! Cheers to my readers. Love:)