
The Day the Door Stayed Shut
Ashish Chugh(Author)
Lulu.com (Publisher)
Published on 29. December 2025
978-1-105-86585-5 (ISBN)
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"Two weeks inside," they said.
For Arjun, a quiet office worker in a Mumbai suburb, it sounds almost like a holiday: no trains, no small talk, no pretending to laugh at the boss's jokes. But when the city shuts its doors, and his front door clicks closed, the flat that once felt like a refuge begins to shrink.
With the world outside reduced to sirens, alerts, and grainy news footage, Arjun starts to notice the things he's been ignoring for years: a crack above the switchboard, the wall that won't quite stay smooth, the way silence can turn into a weapon when it has nowhere else to go.
As days blur, he bargains with time, rations hope, makes chalk marks on plaster, and holds awkward conversations with his own reflection. Memories he has carefully shelved-parents left behind in a smaller town, a job he walked away from, a relationship he slipped out of-return with the persistence of damp. The more he counts the building's flaws, the more he has to face his own.
The Day the Door Stayed Shut is an intimate, slow burn portrait of a man stuck at home and forced to meet himself properly for the first time. It is a novel about ordinary loneliness, quiet breakdowns, and the thin line between safety and self-imprisonment. Above all, it is about the small, shaky movements-towards a door, a phone, a kinder sentence in your own head-that begin to turn a locked room back into a life.
Perfect for readers of reflective literary fiction who have ever stood in a familiar room and wondered, "Is this all there is-and what am I supposed to do with it?"
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English
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978-1-105-86585-5 (9781105865855)
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