A Siren (A Novel)

One of India’s leading novelists Romen Basu has yet again written for a cause, he plight of the Israelis and the Palestinians looking for a just solution. Though fiction this work is more true to life than any historical novel. This is Basu’s fiftieth novel and twenty-ninth published work. This novel “has pained him” says the author for decades in which the two sides are not finding a compromise solution rather than settling their disputes with swords. Fatima a Palestinian and Emanuel a Jew, the two principal characters, are in the middle of the dispute. They continue to search for a solution and in the process lose their lives in an accidental death. The underlying message of the novelist is to strike a compromises for a lasting peace. Political characters living or dead mentioned are purely fictional. Any resemblance to the real characters is circumstantial.