The Desert Land

<p> The perceptible narrative style and the plot of the writer remind the 18th century novel Tristram Shandy by the Anglo -Irish novelist Laurence Sterne.</p><p> The two plots concurrently running one over the other from the beginning to the end the life of Raju and Aravind the two protagonists and the dissertation of the family drama has been vividly portrayed. </p><p> The foibles contradictions and the affections of the members in the family drama have been so closely observed the corny with coarse and the philosophical with the inane. S. Jayabaskar M.A. (Eng. Litt) Chief Commercial Inspector (Retd.)S.Railway Dindigul.</p>