Godzilla and the Song Bird by Islam, Manzu

Godzilla and the Song Bird (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845235871)

Vendor: Manzu Islam
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Godzilla and the Song Bird by Islam, Manzu

Godzilla and the Song Bird

$20.95
Godzilla and the Song Bird by Islam, Manzu

Godzilla and the Song Bird

$20.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Manzu Islam
ISBN-10: 1845235878
ISBN-13: 9781845235871
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2024
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
By Manzu Islam
By Manzu Islam
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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.

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