NITN | @notintownlive | 08 Mar 2018, 01:19 pm

“Love Made In Heaven” by Shahid Hasan Piyush is a Bengali romantic fiction that will remind reader that love is the most powerful force in the world.
The author refrained from giving any proper name to the lovers. You just know them as individuals; you know their emotions, their pains, their hopes, and their dreams, but their identities remain a mystery, and that adds a beautiful layer to the story.
Love and feelings and friendship—do they really need separate identities? You just need to feel them and these feelings lend you your identity.
The author has done a most remarkable job in letting the two protagonists go unnamed—brave and unconventional, I must say.
The hero is leaving for America on work. He is leaving behind his wife and his daughter.
Destiny brings a heroine into his life.
The heroine is going to her husband, who lives in America. But she has never travelled alone and she doesn’t know English.
Her family requests our hero—though he is total stranger to them—to take care of her in her maiden journey. The hero agrees to help.
The hero realises soon enough that the girl is not happy with her marriage; in fact, she has been forced into this relationship. She has never even met her husband, who is ten years older than her.
The beautiful and innocent girl wrenches the hero’s heart and he feels himself drawn towards her.
A friendship grows between them as their journey continues.
The girl had always wanted to marry a man of her choice, a man with whom she can be a friend.
And, she seems to find that friend in the hero, but their ties lies elsewhere.
They are supposed to stay together till the plane journey to America lasts, but in the middle they get held up due to the sudden outbreak of war.
And, thus their journey gets extended and they get even more entangled with each other.
Reading the story becomes rather interesting from this point onward.
But the closer the two gets, the more melancholic the story becomes, since it is evident that a separation looms over the horizon.
Romantic novels abound in today’s market and finding a quality read is becoming more and more difficult with each new release. But, this novel stands out for its heart- wrenching content.
The beauty of Shahid Hasan Piyush's writing lies in its simplicity. Born in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, he currently resides in the US.
So while you wait for his next book do go and lose yourself in the love story of two unnamed travellers.
(Reviewed by Priya Das)
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