Title: The House That BJ Built
Author: Anuja Chauhan
Publisher: Westland Ltd.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Pages: 410
Source: Flipkart Review Program
Rating: 5/5
In this present scenario when couple
of books has been releasing every day. It is hard for readers to pick the right
one, of course time worthy. Personally I avoid over-flowing-love fiction as
most Indian authors writing these days. But when I read first book of Anuja
Chauhan ‘ Zoya’s factor’, I found her as cause for celebration. And with next
read ‘Those Pricey Thakur Girls’ she became a most promising Indian author of
literary fiction especially for me.
And now ‘The House That BJ Built by
Anuja Chauhan’ has already occupied the reading floor. It’s time to meet our favorite
characters again (YaY Moment), those beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically
named daughters of Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur. Actually this book is a sequel
of “Those Pricey Thakur Girls” but Anuja interlaced the characters so well that
you found it more refreshing and delectable.
As,
“I’ll
make my sisters squirm like well-salted earthworms.
I
won’t sell. Even my jutti won’t sell.
And
if I die na, then even my ghost won’t sell.”
“She
has no hissa. If you open your mouth we’ll borrow next-door-ka-pistol and
sambhar vada you both. Imagine!”
“Take
your Time. Think it out. I’m not going anywhere. Not now. Not ever.”
“The House That BJ Built” is
basically a story of a girl, Bonu singh Rajawat who runs a workshop, set up on
the first floor of BJ’s (Her Grandfather) house. The workshop is Bonu’s pride
and joy.
“Bonu is a girl who doesn’t respect
any rules, who picks locks and rips off designers and order nasbandis without
worrying at all about right or wrong.” That what’s Samar thought.
Samar? Samar is Bonu’s childhood crush, a
step-cousin and a young director who arrived back after ages at BJ’s House (Hailey
Road. Delhi). Somehow the story takes turn and BJ (Their Grandfather) left the
world with a promise that Samar would sell the Bj’s property and distribute the
Hissas in all alphabetical aunts equally. and then comes the interesting
part, varieties of obstacles esp. an extended family (a philanderer uncle) and
mystery behind her great grandmother’s death. Meanwhile Samar falls for Bonu
The Chhamchham unexpectedly.
Here a great applause for Anuja
chauhan, she managed to render the characters in an impressive way that you
hooked with the story till the end, It took me less than two days to complete it. [Note:
Those who don’t want to lose their jobs please read it on weekend because it’s
really hard to put it down once you started]
And those who were thinking that love
ka the end of Eshwari and ‘Steesh’ in “Pricey Thakur Girls”. There is a vibrant
surprise for you. Hope you would like to find it by yourself.
These light hearted still relatable
dialogues filled with colloquial nuances, make you realize that you’re dealing with
an intellectual writer on the other side I have no words to describe Anuja’s
sense of humor. She will give you the “pet-pakdo-laugh” for sure. She will make
you giggle with tangy romance between Bonu and Samar.
If, you have been waiting for
profound yet entertaining read, Hey Jack, Anuja is back!
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Twitter Handle of an Author is @anujachauhan .
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