The book is about what a character named Shijukutty goes
through when he leaves his motherland to change his fortune but gets trapped in
a land which looks glamorous but has a
very depressing lifestyle for some people like him. How tough is it for a
person to live and survive in such a place without a entity known and familiar
to him is very well described in this book. What a migrant goes through in a
totally different country in the quest of earning money is realistically
portrayed. The minute detail of every
minute how a day passes is very nicely depicted in chapter with
timeline.
"Every night I would go to bed daydreaming. The morning after,
in the light of reality and logic, everything would seem meaningless.. Life was
predictable and mechanical. Life was a handful of sand."
The story begins where Shijukutty goes to Dubai for more
opportunities but sooner be realised how he was fooled regarding employment. A
very harsh issue is discussed here- human trafficking, where a poor is forced
to get lure by people whom he might not be aware of as well as their background
to him are either unknown.
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