📝Then suddenly a twist happens where everything comes to a face to face revolution in a country that is not their own. In the first half Sameera introduces us about the the love for her job, the radio station, the Malayalam mafia jokes, her best friend Ali, and her love for music and String Walkers band. She lives here with her baba and his brothers who are in the police department owns a big house commonly known as ‘Taya Ghar’. 📝 The novel starts as Sameera Parvin, a Pakistani immigrant working in a radio station in an unnamed city in Middle East, came back from her hometown after some tragedy hits her which the readers are not made aware until the second part of the book. 📝 This book was nominated and won the JCB prize for literature and I was very curious about reading this book. 📝 Benyamin’s Jasmine Days is a story of conflicts about religious revolutions sets out as Arab spring revolution in Manama Bahrain which first published in Malayalam in 2014 and translated into English in 2018. You will win.”- An old bookworm (Jasmine Days)❤️ Do not be influenced, do not give into temptations. Thousands of people will approach you and offer thousands of opinions. ❤️ “In the most trying moments of your life, do only that you know to be absolutely right. Jasmine Days is the heart-rending story of a young woman in a city where the promise of revolution turns into destruction and division. She is forced to choose between family and friends, loyalty and love, life and death.
As the people’s agitation gathers strength, Sameera finds herself and her family embroiled in the politics of their adopted land. But her happy world starts to fall apart when revolution blooms in the country. She thrives in her job as a radio jockey and at home she is the darling of the family. Sameera Parvin moves to an unnamed Middle Eastern city to live with her father and her relatives.
Winner of JCB prize for literature in 2018 ✏️ Published: 2014 in Malayalam and Jin English
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