Death of a Taxi Driver (9781483631585) Mohammed Helal Books
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A fascinating journey into inner space, written with romanticism unique to the author’s Bengali culture, Mohammed Helal’s Death of a Taxi Driver is an intense and exciting tragedy of Everyman on the streets of Toronto. Amidst the riches of Canada’s premiere city, an immigrant taxi driver pursues a proletarian destiny–he has committed a crime and has undergone a harrowing time through the slow and onerous courts. (It will be noted here that the author has given express consent for this Press Release’s revision, agreeing to the items written about the city of Toronto, which is the setting for his fiction. –Ed.) Meantime he roams free and like the proverbial Dutchman, roams Toronto’s streets in endless circles, ruminating on his fate and his miseries (one of which is a love triangle involving him, his wife, and another man), until he decides to break the mirror of fate and end his life and with it, the misery and mental suffering that he carried around for a long time.
Mohammed Helal’s viewpoint is multicultural and a positive net effect is the general sense of one being transported or connected to many other times and places while the story describes modern scenes in its here and now. Helal does a literary gamble in narrating a story set in a modern Western city with the clear, descriptive rococo of classical Persian storytelling and the flavors of his native Bangladesh. He updates these and makes an interesting case for non-Western authors to be accepted as equals in Western literature. Why, one asks, has the author gambled thus? The answer is, because he has the vision and talent to see it through. The many contrasts thus made, though, supports the taxi driver’s alienation–whilst his heart and soul might fly through the city on a magic carpet, he must twist and tangle with the taxi’s wheel to secretly escape a dark fate on the streets of Toronto.
The story Death of a Taxi Driver itself is elegaic, beating with slow philosophical wings cascaded wonderfully in the sparkling stream of dramatic events. At the same time it is realistic with a purpose–to connect its readers with concurrent social and political issues and an urge for a sustainable political journey to an aspired direction. Interestingly, this captivating fiction reflects on romance, sensuality, rage, revenge, bad mistakes, mental travails, guilt, redemption, depression and hallucination with intimate and vivid descriptions, emotional intensity and psychological insight. While the taxi driver has the heart of his native land, he has, because he also feels deeply about the common miseries of the Western society he is in, admitted that he has become himself a different man, but one who is acutely aware of his roots and his being quite different in that society. In the end, Helal cuts through the lines to ask readers “The burning question here is how we can minimize our emotional mistakes, and how much is a society willing to respond to a unique individual need?” For anyone, whether Western, Arab, Oriental, African or Latin American, Helal’s book is a cry from the heart that reverberates in this sad tale of loneliness and the uselessness of human life that has no other purpose in its solemn journey but utility and productivity in societies (not confined to any one country) which seem to appreciate economic value alone
Death of a Taxi Driver (9781483631585) Mohammed Helal Books
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Excellent read worth of my money and time. I laughed, got excited, then sad and at last cried out. I like the description of the places specially the Lake Ontario and the CN Tower. But the end was too much sad and very captivating. I enjoyed reading. I think the author is an immigrant but has excelled lot of English writers in the West.
The cover pages are nice.
Future advice give a picture of the author. Waiting for the next book if the author has any.
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