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Godzilla and the Song Bird

Godzilla and the Song Bird

Islam, Manzu

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ISBN10: 1845235878
ISBN13: 9781845235871
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: Aug 15 2024
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Set in the period before and through the Bangladeshi war of independence, this novel has at its heart the continuing friendship between three boys with a love of cinema, whose loyalty into adulthood has surprising outcomes. Bulbul, the central character, is a journalist who witnesses and experiences the clash between individual struggles for meaning in a world torn apart by war, genocide and religious exclusions. This is a novel that has everything: tenderness, humour, sadness, satire, horror, tension and release. Scene after scene of brilliant storytelling drives the narrative, revealing truths about the difficult emergence of a postcolonial society and reflecting on the nature of storytelling as a characteristic of Bengali culture - a double-edged one because stories can both evade and uncover buried secrets.

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