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The Alibi Of Reality
A medical student under suspicion, a teacher who doubts him, and a thriller built on the unsettling idea that reality can be an alibi.
Overview
Samant is studying to become a doctor. He is also summoned to a police station for questioning. His own teacher is among those who doubt him. Has he committed a crime? And if so, how does he keep walking free?
The central puzzle of this thriller is not whodunit but how — how can reality itself serve as an alibi? Sushant constructs a narrative that keeps the reader at the edge of certainty, never quite letting Samant be innocent and never quite proving him guilty. The people tasked with judging him — police, teachers, the system — find themselves without solid ground. The novel probes what happens when the machinery of justice confronts someone who seems to use perception itself as cover.
The climax revisits the question from an angle the earlier chapters make you unprepared for.
Samant sees her and fights with her, despite loving her, asking her to leave him. But she does not. Is she reality? Or just an alibi? Samant, the man preparing to become a doctor, is called to the police station for questioning; and his own teacher questions him. Has he really committed a crime? Does he have an effective alibi? Is he pulling a fast one on his teacher? What does the system do with a person like this? Throw him in jail. Leave him to carry out something abominable and still have reality as an alibi? These are not easy questions for those dealing with Samant. How does Samant always manage to get away with it? How can reality be an alibi? An edge-of-the-seat thriller that takes the reader to the hitherto unvisited crevices of human mind and behaviour-and a mind boggling climax.
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