Editor’s Book of the Month

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Author: Sunil Sharma
Title: The Minotaur
Paperback:
The Minotaur is a chilling but familiar account of the rise and fall of a third-world despot. Riding the tidal wave of popular support, Caesar the Marxist, soon turns into a dictator and plunges his impoverished, exploited nation into a bloody civil war. Fleeing from his burning nation, he lands up in a remote island and declares himself the King. Then the personal descent of a once charismatic doctor-turned-guerilla leader into personal hell begins. The Minotaur is born and finally finds his nemesis, in the form of a radicalized native, on that remote island… A dark tale of power-crazy leaders, as relevant in today’s Africa or Latin America or South Asia, as it was in the ancient world.

My debut novel--The Minotaur--has come out finally!!

A Peep into the Book:


The Minotaur is a chilling but familiar account of the rise and fall of a third-world despot. Riding the tidal wave of popular support, Caesar the Marxist, soon turns into a dictator and plunges his impoverished, exploited nation into a bloody civil war. Fleeing from his burning nation, he lands up in a remote island and declares himself the King. Then the personal descent of a once charismatic doctor-turned-guerilla leader into personal hell begins. The Minotaur is born and finally finds his nemesis, in the form of a radicalized native, on that remote island… A dark tale of power-crazy leaders, as relevant in today’s Africa or Latin America or South Asia, as it was in the ancient world.


About the Author


Sunil Sharma (b 1958) is currently Vice-principal, Reader and Head, Department of English, Model College—an A-grade college affiliated to the University of Mumbai—MIDC, Dombivli (East), in District Thane, Maharashtra, India. He is a bilingual critic, poet, dramatist, literary interviewer, editor, translator, essayist and fiction writer. Some of his short stories and poems have already appeared in prestigious e and print journals of global repute, like: Indian Literature (of Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi); Munyori (USA online); The Plebian Rag (USA online); New Woman (Mumbai); Kritya, Creative Saplings and Muse India (all three e-zines); the Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies (West Bengal); Prosopisia (Ajmer); Indian Literary Panorama (Mumbai); Contemporary Vibes (Chandigarh), and Indian Journal of Post-colonial Literatures (Kerala). Some of his stories have been anthologized also.
He is also a freelance journalist in English. His areas of strength are Marxism, Mass Media, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. His book on the Philosophy of the Novel—A Marxist Critique is already published. Minotaur is his debut novel that deals with contemporary socio-political realities.


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