It can't be you -Author Prem Rao.

                                                                           It can’t be you.

                                                                          Author: Prem Rao

                                                                        Reviewed by Anjana pai     

        “It can’t be you” is both a psychological thriller as well as a novel with a lot of realism depicted. Most times the author makes  use of the first person Narrative Techniques which makes it simple to understand ,but he also uses  the third person narrative Techniques which gives the pep  and emphasis to  certain incidences  Four people Narrate happenings  in their autobiographical style makes the readers understand better. The Tag line ‘A Spiral of vengeance’ is the harbinger of suspense in the novel. 

       Mr Rao has used incidences that took place in the political arena of the period between the 1946 -2001 in India. The uses of famous people like general Thimmaya, Manekshaw, Krishna Menon,  Lal Bhadur Shastri is to make the work of  fiction  appear authentic also  the incidences though fictious are synchronized with the political situations , the ministers and ruling parties of that period. There is a lot of realism in the novel which we can see from the incidences which take place in the novel e.g The house hold   disputes, sibling rivalry the generation gap between Belliappa and Shefali his daughter brings out the realism.
         I attained a rich experience reading the book and unlike other thrillers it is not easy to guess the end. Characters and characterization are well defined and this helps to understand the novel well   Description of the four characters Shefali, Pritam, Elena, and Belliappa helps the readers to understand the fiction well. There is a well drawn line of demarcation between the roles of the protagonist and the antagonist which makes the story clearer to the reader.

      In the end when aunt Roshan tells, “This spiral of vengeance started by Belliappa must come to an end”. We can clearly see how the life of pritam changes to betterment which tells the readers that the chain of vengeance is broken and that there is the beginning of a new chapter in the life of Pritam. It gives the author scope for a sequel to the story.   
                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                           ©-By Anjana Pai.