The Unfinished Masterpiece

The Unfinished Masterpiece is a novel which can be classified as a thriller. At the sametime it points a finger at an atrocity committed in our society. The novel takes us on a week-long journey with Jershid who is trying to locate his missing father a talented artist.The novel also opens our eyes to the cruel abuse which is inflicted upon the girls of our land. It is a quest to find the inner layers of a village in Tamil Nadu by discerning the spirit behind an artists art his relationships with people whom he meets in the village the bodies of girls which float atop the pond and the its impact on the artists mind. Anju has made good use of the strange land  and its customs and thereby evokes suspense in the minds of the readers. The beautiful Tamil Nadu landscape with its oral traditions comes alive in Anjus narration.             - Madhupal