Story Teller Of Modern Era

Literature indeed is a mirror of society, reflecting the image sometime through the help of fiction and other times the bitter truth as it is. It can be a handy tool to apprehend the world around us. To understand people of different nation literature becomes a leading instrument. Mainly for this purpose works written in different languages have recently received appreciation and popularity among the readers. It gives us the scope to come across different culture, ethnic and life style they mainly follow.

Here are few names whose writing mesmerised me in the most beautiful way.

Haruki Murakami : Murakami is better known for his mysterious surreal atmosphere in the heart of hustle bustle of everyday life. Cats disappearance, library with secret passage, mysterious underground subway leading to another opening are the dominant features of Murakami world. Strange and uncanny, his words have the power to change our perspectives about the world around us. “I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The name associated with magical realism is none other than Marquez. This Latin American novelist and short story writer has the finest ability to tell stories in the most unique way, as he has said “ A novelist can do anything as long he makes people believe in it”. And significant part is we believe in the world he writes. It’s quite possible to shower flowers from the sky on the death of Jose

Arcadio Buendia. Mystical, captivating his writing is a complete bliss.

Milan Kundera: Master of humour, chezc writer Milan Kundera portrays soviet communism in the most realistic way. Philosophical and insightful his works never lack general focus on human emotion. His celebrated novel ‘The unbearable lightness of Being’ deals with deeper philosophy of life and death where heaviness becomes the memory and forgetting associated with lightness.

Khaled Hossain : Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini made his debut with The Kite Runner, one of the most recommended book of all time. Gripping tale of redemption this is a story of two friends in war stricken Afghanistan. The futility of war and it’s impact on children horrifyingly portrayed by this skilful master.

The above mentioned writers has given us numerous masterpieces, offering us piece of imagination in the most descriptive way, where truth lies in the background if we alter our perception a little bit.