About the Book

Resident Dormitus uniquely captures the hitherto unexplored territory when a youngster steps out of university and merges into the real world. It expounds upon the feeling of ‘Being lost’ after the initial euphoria of ‘Having arrived’ gets over. The novel’s protagonist is Dostoyevsky’s Idiot and Albert Camus’s Meursault rolled in one and the story follows him through a series of seemingly disconnected events which culminates into a dawning realization. He lies. He abuses – drugs, friends, family and life. He flirts – with morality and with death. He aids and abets suicide. He kills. At once, an accidental journey of self discovery and a deliberate free fall, the story is a potent potion of dark and trivial and witty yet profound. A distinctive novel that forces readers to question their own existence and the choices that led to it.