La Professor

Book Review

#BookReview: "War Within" Elif Mustafa is a 50-year-old woman who lives alone in her big mansion. She is a victim of depression and she has turned it into a fearsome imaginary character named Lahb. Lahb lives with her in that lonely mansion terrorizing her constantly. A maid named Shazma works in her house but she keeps to herself in the beginning, just doing house chores and then leaving. Elif tells us the story of her past and starts from the time at which she was twenty years old and how it all started, the very first instance which caused the state in which she resides today. The story of 20-year-old Elif and 50 year old Elif move side by side. 50-year-old Elif, being the narrator, continuously introduces us to unique and deep descriptions of depression. As she is narrating instances of her past, she provides her own thoughts comprised of 50 years of wisdom and experience, to counter the thoughts she had when she was twenty years old. The character of Elif transforms through multiple tragedies which occur in her life and it all starts with the foolish idea of “Love at first sight”.