A king decrees that all humans be skinned alive. A man runs from words that hound him like a pack of wolves. A legion of white snakes sweeps across a land blighted by drought. A beleaguered soul laments the loss of a homeland. A coward's many virtues are lauded to disturbing effect.By turns passiona
Songs of a Coward: Poems of Exile
โ Scribed by Perumal Murugan
- Book ID
- 100187699
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House India Private Limited
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9386815680
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โฆ Synopsis
A king decrees that all humans be skinned alive. A man runs from words that hound him like a pack of wolves. A legion of white snakes sweeps across a land blighted by drought. A beleaguered soul laments the loss of a homeland. A coward's many virtues are lauded to disturbing effect.By turns passionate, elegiac, angry, tender, nightmarish and courageous, the poems in Songs of a Coward weave an exquisite tapestry of rich images and turbulent emotions. Written during a period of immense personal turmoil, these verses are an enduring testament to the resilience of an imagination under siege and the liberating power of words in one's darkest moments.
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