I have read the book as one of the initial readers and had the review unpublished till today. The reason is unknown, but here it goes.
This novel reminds me of the time of recession. though we have all passed that phase and have travelled to the greener pasture, one one has forgotten those years of a constant insecurity in the professional life. We all loved our friends but always expected one of them to be the chosen one for a pink slip and not us. So many of the known faces have been sent home and have never come back to work.
A very few stories are there that we really know in details.
The homing pigeon is one such story. Rather a number of stories, the characters in which falls prey of the same or similar situation and finally find their way out.
The best thing about this book is the fight for survival everyone puts up with time....even at the cost of coming to the edge to their conscience. The way almost all the character transforms from being a CEO to a Pimp to a CEO of their own wishes again.
I generally do not prefer reading Indian authors for their lack of flawlessness in the language, for breaking away from linguistic barrier and using something between English and any Indian regional languages.I have nothing against any regional languages, but I prefer being loyal in whichever I am dwelling in at that time.
This book, The Homing Pigeons.....have done absolute justice to the character sketching, the language and the plot. Even after transforming a well settled household into a dwelling place for unknown human beings to introducing peace in the form of a body shopping experience, the author has maintained a clean story. He has put his effort to keep the standard high above the normal and kept the reader interested till the end.
Whoever reads it would want to complete the book and then put away the book. It is a definite good read, though I was expecting a substantial and directional ending of the primary characters of the book.
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