Kathmandu, May 10 -- Reading 'The Broken Wings' is like drinking a holy drink with a bitter taste. Khalil Gibran's writing feels like journeying to a beautiful place shadowed by a mournful history, or falling in love with the fear of facing a loss.

Penned by Lebanese-American writer Gibran, 'The Broken Wings' is one of those novellas that will compel you to revisit it often, to relish the beauty of sentences penned and comprehend their profundity.

For those yet to read it, the very first paragraph of the book is enough to pull you in. The paragraph goes, "I was eighteen years of age when love penned my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fiery fingers.."

The novella is about star-crossed lovers wh...