By Onkar Sharma of Literary Yard.

Time of Exile / Gaither Stewart Punto Press Publishing, New York, 2015 / Paperback: 374 pages, available in Kindle as well.

“‘Time of Exile’ proves to be a tale of our times where the governments are conspiring and hatching conspiracies…”

I haven’t read the first two parts of Gaither’s Europe Trilogy. Nor did I feel the need to. ‘Time of Exile’ is a strong work that has the potential to stand out on its own. Its protagonist ‘Elmer’ is seemingly a voice, a reflection and an apparition of every human down the street who finds this world embroiled in unnecessary politics and diplomacy.A long trail of writeups by the author and others to deliberately force the genre ‘political novel’ in the beginning makes the story predictable. Does it harm the reader interest? It does not, since Gaither has scripted the tale so intelligently that you keep yearning for more at the turn of every page. It happens because ‘Time of Exile’ proves to be a tale of our times where the governments are conspiring and hatching conspiracies. Most of the events captured the novel seem familiar for the globalized audience as they have the universal appeal.

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