The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran

“By the end of [the] very first story, people half a world away have been transformed into complete human beings, full of frailties and fragile self-regard, achingly sympathetic. That’s why The Red Carpet reads like a revelation. . . . I recommend this book so highly!”

Carolyn See, The Washington Post

Lavanya Sankaran has come up with his debut novel and he has done a great job giving justice to her first literary work which brilliantly captures the vitality and the menace of a the contemporary city of India and how it enables to shape the dreams and aspirations of families residing in it. The author is a first-time novelist and has woven a narrative which touches on various burning issues of the present day times such as corruption, migration, acquisition of land for industry along with a battle between tradition and modernity, the novel deals with two parallel narrative tracks, one of which revolves around Anand Murthy, a first-generation entrepreneur who runs a moderately successful small-scale auto-components manufacturing business outside Bangalore.

The novel, The Hope Factory has a simple story of a family residing in Bangalore. It begins with Anand, who is on the verge of getting a contract from an international company and for which he requires to set up a new factory, which further requires 10 acres of land which he need to buy. But, in the current scenario, both finding a land and buying it are difficult tasks to do.

Anand is a Bangalore based successful man, who is well settled and married, at least how he portrays himself to be. He gets a chance to expand h little factory for which he needs money and land, and when living in New India both of these are hard to find.

Then, there is a character called Kamla, who is the maid in Anad’s house and lives dangerously close to the rim of tragedy. She lives with her son and the duo has their small hopes for self-betterment depend on the satisfaction of Anand’s wife.

However, Kamla’s son, who is a teenage boy keeps bad company and puts Anand’s marriage in trouble. But Kamala’s son keeps bad company, and Anand’s marriage is in trouble. The gloomy world where politics, crime and land meet on a single platform and which makes it a dangerous place for a common nice citizen, especially the one who is responsible for the well-being of various individuals.

The story is rich with irony and consideration and through this novel Lavanya Sankaran avows her gift render by God to her as a born storyteller with outstanding dexterity, innovation and acumen.

Amazingly, in my context the book has been penned without a single flaw. The story has been narrated in such a smooth way so much so as I was so much lost in its intriguing story that I did not notice any of it, whatever may be the case, it is just a plus point for this book.

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