A Mighty Heart

"A Mighty Heart " is a book written by Marianne Pearl .In her book ,she narrates the real and most horriblest incident of her life - Abduction of Daniel Pearl ( her journalist husband ) by the terrorists.

Though it was such a sad story , the way she has written and narrated the entire episode leaves you with so much hope in life .As when you finish reading the last page , you tell yourself if this woman could carry on in life inspite of what she has gone through , i better look at this world in a positive light

Am not a very voracious reader and pretty slow in reading books .But this book kept me going , in about 2 days i read the complete book as i fell in love with Marianne and adored her explicit way of expressing the little things that happened between them as a cute couple. And not to forget the way she is explaining the anxiety in finding her kidnapped husband at a place like karachi and trying to do justice to her unborn by experiencing the initial days of motherhood....

Initially, she speaks a lot about how she met danny - her loving husband , their lovable love and daring journalism ( they both loved their profession as much as they loved each other ) .Then the story moves on to exactly what happened in those few days of January 2002

I was glued to the book those three days of my life ,reading ....reading and reading ....sometimes with tears rolling down empathising with Marianne's emotions and sometimes fuming inside as to how cruel terrorism is......

This book has influenced me so much that i started reading more about terrorism , Journalism, Danny , Marianne, the hatred between Jews and Islamists & of course the Al-Qaeda .....

To Sum up- It is a beautiful story of a woman who won in the battle of terror and love .... she mentions that the people who executed Danny might think that they have won but actually they lost as they could not take away her love but only his body!

Danny , wherever you are ...my heart and this little article goes to you !!!!