Skip to product information
1 of 1

Grey.com.np

Song of the Soil By Chuden Kabimo, Ajit Baral (Translator)

Song of the Soil By Chuden Kabimo, Ajit Baral (Translator)

Regular price Rs475.00
Regular price Rs475.00 Sale price Rs475.00
Sale Sold out

SHORTLISTED FOR JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. 

English translation of Nepali Novel 'फातसुङ'

On a day of earthquake and rain, a young man gets bad news. Ripden, his childhood friend, has been swept away by a landslide.

So he makes his way back to Malbung, the village of his birth.

The memories come rushing back. Of growing up together; the harsh teachers at school and playing truant; bullies and backyard fights. He remembers, also, the day they ran away from home to Lolay to find out about Ripden’s father, vanished years earlier in the revolution. There the pair meets Nasim, a man who spends his days breaking rocks by the riverside.

Nasim narrates to them an extraordinary tale from his younger days. Of himself and other child soldiers of the revolution; building pipe guns and homemade bombs; fighting pitched battles with the police; training in jungle camps and enduring drink-fuelled nighttime raids; witnessing a massacre in the town square; and suffering a final, unforgivable betrayal.

Set in the foothill town of Kalimpong in the Himalaya, Song of the Soil brings alive the story of the revolution for a separate state of Gorkhaland in the late 1980s. Clear-sightedly, it lays bare the many faces of violence. And in doing so, it asks the vital question: Who, ultimately, wins in a revolution—and who loses?

View full details

Our customer's Reviews:

Thank you grey.np for quick delivery and for the bookmarks as well

- stutisinghbasnet -

  • Exchange Policy

    For Any Damages Or Quality Issues We Do Make an Exchange For Upto 30 days From Date Of Delivery.

  • Social Impact

    For Every 1 Order Placed We Contribute 1 Meal to Our Family From Old Age Homes

  • Delivery Timing

    The Delivery Will Be Within 48 hours If Not Same day.

  • Customer Support

    Call and message support is available between 10 am- 6 Pm, Sunday To Friday.