Böcker av Shahan Pervez

Between Burning Realities is Shahan Pervez's fifth book of creative nonfiction. He recounts his experiences over the past three years, such as his exposure to the depths of exploitation and encounters with deeper forms of pain and stress which made him reflect on life and the human psyche. He learned the hard way that your selected career might fail you and leave you distressed, but he discovered a solution and offers it to the readers so they won't have to endure what he suffered.The essays in this book range in subject matter and tone, from personal reflection to critical analysis. While each piece has its own unique elements, they all share a common message: no matter how low you feel after a failure or tragedy, you have an incredible capacity to overcome adversity and grow. One must strive towards a better version of oneself by burning all insufficiencies. Through personal essays, the author not only expresses himself but also offers inspiration and approaches to intractable human problems.

This book is a collection of essays written in four years: 2017-2020. It opens with the piece "You May Not Reap What You Sow," showing the reader a different side of reality. The author goes against what we always hear: Never Give Up, with his essay "Just Give Up."Two themes surface from this essay collection. One theme is whether life is a gift. A few essays may make the reader consider whether life is a gift. Examples could be the essays "A lot More Awaits" and "Not Alone in Being Alone." Another dominant theme of this collection is, You Are Stronger than the Stone You Roll. It is articulated in the last essay, "Futile," which can be felt in most of the pieces that no matter what troubles one goes through, nothing is an excuse for thriving in life. The author is not trying to teach the readers through essays, but an essay is both an expression and an argument, as clarified by Phillip Lopate in his book To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction. This essay collection will make the readers reflect.