Tall Man Small Shadow  (English, Paperback, Goyal Vipin Behari)

Salil falls in love with muslim girl Nasrin. They could not marry. I liked the way it depicts a multicultural country like India.This book can change your way of looking at things that happen around you.This is worth reading for all those who value good literature.

It is interesting but complicated novel. It deals with many unusual circumstances in the life of central character of the book .Salil is a software engineer who has a dream to open his own company. He had a unsuccessful love affair with Muslim girl when he was a student and tried to commit suicide. So he is afraid of falling in love with any other girl. When he meets Aalya he falls in love with her shadow as "escape mechanism". Aalya was intelligent research scholar in English literature an...

What I loved about the book is how author has used a surreal concept of 'falling in love with a shadow' in a typical Indian setting. Very different & symbolic. Also the use of language is simple and classy.. one sentence in every page is like a quotation..All in all good story line,multiple angles, multiple interpretations, good book!