Amballore Thoma

By Jose Thekkumthala

This is an extraordinary story of ordinary people facing challenges, leading to delighting success and disheartening failure. It has unforgettable moments of glee and pathos, success and failure, humility and arrogance, gratitude and greed, fidelity and betrayal, and birth and death. One might find shades of his or her life story within these pages of glare of hope and gloom of hopelessness. Thoma is exiled from his parental home by his siblings, an astonishing instance of proverbial backstab. He hits the street with his wife, Ann, and children. "Somewhere in this world, there is a place for us," Thoma tells the stranded family. They drift from rental to rental and end up in Mannuthy. Chettiar, the landlord, a distortion in the four-dimensional space continuum, takes hold of Thoma's life. Ann deploys the weapon of prayer to steer them toward a dignified life. The children grow up and leave. Josh goes overseas to Canada, bringing hope to the family and purchasing property in Amballore, whereto the family moves. The four youngest children come to be known as Gang of Four, and there was a stage revolt against Thoma, falsifying his will to get their hands on the entire property. Old man death hauls Thoma and Ann to outer space. Thoma's long arm reaches out from beyond the grave to serve justice to the gang members. Josh encounters Thoma's and Ann's ghosts. He and Ann visit their old rental. Bhavany narrates Mannuthy's mysterious September full moon massacres of young women. Josh puts a stop to the murders. He gets visions of the attic, leading him to solve the curse on the Thoma family. The novel embraces multiple genres to present a gripping story of horror and suspense. It seamlessly delves into surreal elements, draping it in magical realism, seemingly acknowledging the supernatural to explain the reality of life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984516752
• ISBN13: 9781984516756
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Xlibris Us
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"