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Godzilla And The Songbird
Publisher:
Speaking Tiger
| Author:
Manzu Islam
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Speaking Tiger
Author:
Manzu Islam
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Category Graphic Novels/Comics
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436
When India is partitioned and riots erupt in Calcutta, Bulbul—an orphan whose ‘soul sings sweet’—flees with his grandparents to their ancestral village, now in East Pakistan. But the divisions of religion, caste and ethnicity have followed them to their new home, and life will always remain a patchwork of darkness and shining light.
Bulbul grows up to become a journalist who witnesses and experiences the clash between different individual struggles for meaning in a world torn apart by war, genocide and bigotry. He risks his heart in love, and his life in a mission to expose the corruption of the country’s powerful elite. It appears that he will not live to tell his tale—and that of his people—but he does. For, at the heart of his story is the continuing friendship between three boys with a love of cinema, whose loyalty into adulthood will have surprising outcomes. And in the repeating horror, some hope and beauty will sing.
Godzilla and the Songbird is a sweeping novel, universal in its rich humanity and Bangla in image and voice. It has everything: tenderness, terror, humour, sadness, satire, tension and release. Scene after scene of brilliant storytelling drives the narrative, revealing truths and secrets about the difficult emergence of a nation, and the dreams and struggles of individuals caught in the currents of history.
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When India is partitioned and riots erupt in Calcutta, Bulbul—an orphan whose ‘soul sings sweet’—flees with his grandparents to their ancestral village, now in East Pakistan. But the divisions of religion, caste and ethnicity have followed them to their new home, and life will always remain a patchwork of darkness and shining light.
Bulbul grows up to become a journalist who witnesses and experiences the clash between different individual struggles for meaning in a world torn apart by war, genocide and bigotry. He risks his heart in love, and his life in a mission to expose the corruption of the country’s powerful elite. It appears that he will not live to tell his tale—and that of his people—but he does. For, at the heart of his story is the continuing friendship between three boys with a love of cinema, whose loyalty into adulthood will have surprising outcomes. And in the repeating horror, some hope and beauty will sing.
Godzilla and the Songbird is a sweeping novel, universal in its rich humanity and Bangla in image and voice. It has everything: tenderness, terror, humour, sadness, satire, tension and release. Scene after scene of brilliant storytelling drives the narrative, revealing truths and secrets about the difficult emergence of a nation, and the dreams and struggles of individuals caught in the currents of history.
About Author
Manzu Islam was born in 1953 in East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) where he lived through the 1971 war, walking the swamps for weeks to reach the refugee camps in India, then returning to fight as a freedom fighter. He came to England as a political refugee and, after studying for a degree and working as a racial harassment officer in East London, he became interested in writing. He has published four well-received earlier books, including Song of Our Swampland and Burrow.
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