Ripples is the herald of a new genre of novel. It is written in lyrical prose and a very pithy style. It is completely free of the conventional shackles of embellishment, quotes and identification of the characters. In fact, it can be called a nuclear novel. If a whole episode can be described in one word the author has just done that. The novel is about two love stories, totally unrelated in the space-time dimension. There is no chronological order in the two ...