The story has these moments when you find your eyes widening with surprise, because you never expected it to take that direction. But, if you manage to survive the initial chapters-like me-you will realize that the book does get better. They are so loosely knitted that the reader is forced to keep the book aside after reading the first four or five chapters. I know it comes across as one of those philosophical books on life, but Dutta’s narrating style is such that he manages to convey the message of life without getting preachy.įrankly speaking, the first few chapters didn’t appeal to me much. How these characters meet each other and how one’s life story helps the other with his or her crisis is what forms the major plot of the story. While Armaan is a doctor who tries to get over his regretful past by playing the bad doctor, Zarah is his intern who pretends to be bold enough to bury her past.Īnd Kajal, Dushyant’s ex-girlfriend, is a simple girl, the daughter of a rich father, who always ends up being the damsel in distress and finds herself amidst two twisted relationships. He has done everything to kill himself and is now dying a slow death because his organs are failing one by one.Īrmaan and Zarah are Pihu’s and Dushyant’s doctors respectively.

Sharing the hospital ward with her is Dushyant, the bad boy with a history of drug addiction, who physically abused his ex-girlfriend. Pihu is an always-smiling angel and a brilliant student who wants to become a surgeon, but reality strikes her when she realizes that she is suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS)-a motor neuron disease that often leads to death. 509 of GKL Super Specialty Hospital of Delhi, Till The Last Breath is the story of Pihu, Dushyant, Armaan, Zarah and Kajal, and the line of events that connect their lives together. But this specific book is indeed different. Technically, he is no different from the other writers who think that the best way to attract young readers is narrating their college stories in 200(or more) pages. I, however, had never read any of his books until now, and I grabbed Till The Last Breath only to understand what is it that people love about Durjoy Dutta’s writing. Durjoy Dutta has written around nine books so far and is ranked among the bestselling authors of India.

Till The Last Breath by Durjoy Datta