Book review

Book specification
Half Girlfriend is an

Indian English coming of age,

young adult romance novel by
Indian author Chetan Bhagat.
The novel, set in rural Bihar,
New Delhi, Patna, and New York,
is the story of a Bihari boy in quest
of winning over the girl he loves.
This is Bhagat's sixth novel.
Released on 1 October 2014 by
Rupa Publications.
The novel has also been published
in Hindi and Gujarati versions as
well.
280 page book.

Chetan Bhagat(author):
Education:

School:- Army Public

School, Dhaula Kuan in
Delhi.
Undergraduate degree:
Indian Institute of
Technology Delhi in 1995
in mechanical
engineering.
MBA degree from
the Indian Institute of
Management
Ahmedabad in 1997.

Born: 22 April

1974 (age 42)

New Delhi, India.
He is:

Indian author
Columnist
Screenwriter
Television personality
Motivational speak

Books written by Chetan Bhagat:

Five Point Someone (2004)
One Night @ the Call Center (2005)
The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008)
2 States (2009)
Revolution 2020 (2011)
What Young India Wants (2012)
Half Girlfriend (2014)
Making India Awesome (2015)
One Indian girl (releasing on 1st oct,2017)

Awards given to him:

Society Young Achiever award in 2004.
Publisher's Recognition award in 2005.
Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential

People 2010.
Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay 2014: Kai Po
Che
CNN-IBN Award in the field of Entertainment for
2014

Book details:
"Half-Girlfriend, to me, is a unique Indian

phenomenon, where boys and girls are not clear

about their relationship status with each other. A boy
may think he is more than friends with the girl, but
the girl is still not his girlfriend.
In India, that is what most men get.

Receptions:
Rituparna Chatterjee of CNN-IBN called it a "massively

disappointing book written exclusively for another Bollywood

sobfest". Pranav Joshi of Daily News and Analysis called it
"old wine in new glass" with a rehashed storyline that
promotes negative stereotypes.
On 9 November 2014, Devapriya Roy wrote an open letter in
the voice of the character Riya Somani to Chetan Bhagat. Riya
expresses her displeasure by briefly asking how readers will
understand her side of the story by just going through six
entries from her personal journal which is cited in the novel.
She also shares that her death was faked by the author in the
novel just to give a taste to the readers

Conclusion
Its an awesome book.(love story )
All should read it once.