About
The recipient of the YCOF national Excellence Award and the winner of the National Debut Youth Fiction Award 2013, Faraaz Kazi is an Indian author primarily into mainstream romance. Also called as 'The Nicholas Sparks of India,' Kazi is rated amongst the top romance writers in the country. A certified soft-skills trainer and a three-time post grad, Kazi operates his own academy in Mumbai and is the Founder and CEO of Digi Imprint Solutions, a social media agency for personal and corporate brands. He also consults for a few public relations firms and publishing houses. He is fondly referred to as 'The Young Marketer' and operates a revolutionary blog with the same name and writes for major media houses."
Kazi is a fellow member of the esteemed 'Film Writers Association of India'. 'Truly Madly Deeply', his debut mainstream romance novel is the only Indian book to be nominated in seven categories of the Good reads annual readers' choice awards, apart from being the first Indian novel to win the 'Best Debut (Romance)' during the same awards and is also the only Indian book in the 'Top 100 YA Global Fiction' list. He is a voracious reader and counts singing as his second love. He can be reached at [email protected]. To know more about him do log onto www.faraazkazi.com. Of course, he does 'face' books and 'tweets' when he is not speaking.
Description
<p><span style="color:rgb(15,17,17);font-family:'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">What happens when a king loses his prowess? The day Henry IV could finally declare he had vanquished his enemies, he threw it all away with an infamous deed. No English king had executed an archbishop before. And divine judgment was quick to follow. Many thought he was struck with leprosy—God's greatest punishment for sinners. From that point on, Henry's health was cursed and he fought doggedly on as his body continued to betray him—reducing this once great warrior to an invalid. Fortunately for England, his heir was ready and eager to take over. But Henry wasn't willing to relinquish what he had worked so hard to preserve. No one was going to take away his royal prerogative—not even Prince Hal. But Henry didn't count on Hal's dauntless nature, which threatened to tear the royal family apart.</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
"A slow rasping sound made me turn. I jumped back, the cell phone leaving my hands and smashing against the concrete floor. Someone was seated on the chair, rocking back and forth. Through the fallen light, I could see those hands placed on the arms of the chair, two gruesome wrinkled limbs with ugly boils plastered over the black skin. The red bangles on its wrists shone in my eyes, momentarily blinding me. That thing and I call it a thing because I could sense it wasn't human as no human could have such a hideous form, as vile an existence as the one seated opposite to my horrified self."
From a honeymoon in the hill that goes horribly wrong to an obsessed lover who wants his first love in life and in death; From a mentally deranged man who collects body parts of various women to stitch together his dream girl to a skeptic who enters a mansion of horrors to win a bet and much more, this book is filled with scenarios that are guaranteed to give you goosebumps and sleepless nights.
'The Other Side' is a collection of thirteen tales of the paranormal; a world that our eyes refuse to see, our ears deny hearing and our senses ignore the feel of. This is a book for someone who is brave enough to take up this invitation to journey through uncharted waters along with the authors, who were inspired by some bizarre experiences to pen down this work where the lines of reality have been blurred by the footsteps of imagination.
Each story takes you on a tour de force of unadulterated horror and draws upon the deepest fear in the human mind- the fear of the UNKNOWN!
Reviews
<ol style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;"><li><i>"Engrossing in ways more than one, it surprises, it shocks, it holds you in a vice-like grip!"</i>- <b>The Hindu.</b></li>
<li><i>"Electrifying reading. Mind-chilling!"</i>- <b>Amitabh Bachchan</b>, actor.</li>
<li><i>"Entertaining collection- original insights into the paranormal and the supernatural. Will be a best-seller"</i>- <b>Ruskin Bond</b>, legendary author.</li>
<li><i>"Our cities and towns are invariably linked to their djinns, familiar yet as fearsome down the ages. This spook saga draws on all urban legends to keep them alive among readers"</i><b>- The Pioneer.</b></li>
<li><i>"You want to stop reading it because it gives you the jitters but the next moment it beckons you again and you can't stop until you have read every single story"</i>- <b>The Lucknow Tribune.</b></li>
<li><i>"A spooky page-turner"</i>- <b>Hindustan Times.</b></li>
<li><i>"Scare fare!"</i>- <b>DNA.</b></li>
<li><i>"13 gripping tales of paranormal activity"</i>- <b>FHM India</b>.</li>
<li><i>"Spine-chilling thriller!"</i>- <b>Absolute India</b>.</li>
<li><i>"Love in horror"</i>- <b>The Statesman.</b></li>
<li><i>"Horror Fest"</i>- <b>Femina.</b></li>
<li><i>"Those looking for a change will find enough fodder for a late night in the house, alone"<b>- </b></i><b>The Punekar.</b></li>
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