The Hindu·3 min read·medium
Review | ‘Slow Burn’ by Amal Singh holds up a fantastical mirror to identity and ambition
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Sneha Pathak
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Amal Singh's novel 'Slow Burn' explores themes of identity and ambition through the story of a struggling Mumbai actor who enters a parallel reality. By using the doppelgänger trope, the book examines the moral complexities of success and the desire for self-recognition.
At the heart of Amal Singh’s latest novel, Slow Burn , is a fantasy shared by perhaps all human beings — of living a bigger, better version of our lives. Only here, Singh uses tropes like the magic mirror and the doppelgänger to complicate this fantasy and ponder over questions of identity, moral ambiguity and self-recognition.
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