Crossed &Knotted
India's First Composite Novel
The Blurb
Crossed & Knotted is India’s first Composite Novel, a book written by fourteen authors in close collaboration with each other. The chapters, each a story in itself, are knotted with one another through characters, events, settings and emotions. The result is a read that criss-crosses through a multitude of emotions bringing out deep rooted human desires. They narrate tales of love and betrayal, suspense and mystery, courage and dilemma, along with hope and resilience. Read it for a taste so tantalizing, that your mind will surely be craving for more!
My Review:
I received this book as a review copy directly from the publisher Redomania .Thank you Book Club and Rubina Ramesh for the same. Cross-Knotted is a book written by the collaboration of fourteen authors. There are fourteen stories in it. All these stories are very well connected with each other. As in emotions of all the characters are very well described by various authors in an very effective manner .
My Review:
I received this book as a review copy directly from the publisher Redomania .Thank you Book Club and Rubina Ramesh for the same. Cross-Knotted is a book written by the collaboration of fourteen authors. There are fourteen stories in it. All these stories are very well connected with each other. As in emotions of all the characters are very well described by various authors in an very effective manner .
All the fourteen independent authors have
done justice to their stories. They have penned it down in such a way that will
make you anxious to read what will happen to the other characters in another
story.
These stories are like a garden full of
different kinds flowers .The fragrances of stories are bewitching .Some stories are penitent .Some
are realistic, enchanting , touching and heart-warming .
The thing what I love about Cross-Knotted book is that the work is
collaborated by fourteen different authors coming from different fields and
background having a passion to write stories. Each story is written in such a
way that it could be interlinked by the
readers easily .
Cross knotted is a book is that cannot be
put down or completely ignore it. The stories that touched heart are THE BURNING
CANDLE by Mithun Mukherjee , RECLAIMING LIFE by Anupama Jain and THE DRAGON
LADY by Deepti Menon .Cross -Knotted is a must read book by all.
A priceless collection of stories .An Awesome read .Hats off to the Redomania team
and Sutapa Basu for compiling it and to give us a wonderful book to read .
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Sutapa Basu is an Honours scholar from Santiniketan and holds a Masters degree in English Literature. Her professional career has seen her as a teacher, editor, and publisher. She has worked with renowned international publishing houses like Oxford University Press and Encyclopaedia Britannica. In the last five years of her professional career, she has launched 111 educational titles, 33 CDs and digital products, a language lab and a website. She has also developed and edited over 450 books over the last thirteen years.
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER : READOMANIA
India has traditionally been the land of storytellers and a lot of us have an inherent skill of creating good plots, stories and narrations. With a little encouragement and support, many more authors can be widely read. This is the essence of Readomania-an initiative that nurtures emerging stars of the literary world.
Readomania is an online content discovery platform that brings to life a whole new literary world, with stories, authors, books and a lot more. We also have a publishing house that takes the best of Readomania from the online format to print editions and launches debut authors. Our focus is to bring to the market, new authors and novel concepts, a composite novel being one of them. Our previous book, Chronicles of Urban Nomads, a collection of short stories, was also an experimental publication.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Readomania is the talent hunt in fiction that goes a step beyond, nurtures talent and showcases it to the world, in the process, creating a powerhouse of content.
Our website also has a lot in store for the reader. Since the content is edited and curated, by a strong team of editors, readers get quality reads on a platter. The variety on Readomania is impressively vast; we have romance, emotions, thrills, travel, humour and drama.
Accessing Readomania makes for a perfect break of fifteen minutes from your daily grind. The website was launched in January, 2014 and is already very popular with about 3500 registered users, of which 300 members are active contributors and authors. The site also boasts of 800 online publications and more than three lakh page views till date.
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Thank you for reading this composite novel... yes, the fourteen authors have indeed given their best. Will love to read your review of each of the fourteen stories some day...
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It has always been my pleasure to read good and pleasing stories.This composite novel has it all.Sure I will review each and every story some-time later .Thank you for your kinds words :-).
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Niharika G
Thanks so much for the review! feels great to read about your work getting appreciated.
ReplyDeleteYour most welcome Sanchita :-) .
DeleteIt is great pleasure for me as a reader to read beautifully woven stories that touches the core of the heart.
Thank for entertaining me with your story.
Have a nice day.
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Your most welcome Sanchita :-) .
DeleteIt is great pleasure for me as a reader to read beautifully woven stories that touches the core of the heart.
Thank for entertaining me with your story.
Have a nice day.
Hugs <3
Thanks a lot for the wonderful endorsement of the book! Glad to know you liked it :)
ReplyDeleteYour Most Welcome Ayan :-) .
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Dear Sweety,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the encouraging review of our book! I am really glad that you enjoyed all the stories! Thank you also for the special mention! God bless!
Dearest Deepti I am fortunate to read such a wonderful books written by 14 fabulous author after a long time . My pleasure Deepti. While I was reading your story 'Dragon Lady' I wonder if MIL's could that dangerous in ruining a girl's happiness..
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