THE RIVER'S SONG: ECHOES FROM A VANISHED ISLAND - Softcover

TRIPATHI, RAKESH

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798266667372

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

The River’s Song: Echoes from a Vanished Island
by Rakesh Tripathi

On the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra, where sand islands appear and vanish with the tide, a boy hears a song that will change everything.

When shy schoolboy Jonmoni Das of KV Borjhar joins a boat trip to a mysterious island upriver, he returns with something more than memories. He carries a song — haunting, unshakable — that soon spreads beyond him, becoming the anthem of an entire people.

As Jonmoni’s father Basab, an engineer-turned-teacher, struggles with grief and duty, and scholar Sagarika Kakati steps into his life with courage and compassion, the song rises against the forces that seek to silence the river. Love, protest, and memory intertwine in a fight to save not only land, but a culture itself.

Rich with Assamese traditions — from naamghars to Bihu celebrations, gamocha rituals, and folk songs — this is a lyrical, powerful story of love, loss, and resilience.

The River’s Song: Echoes from a Vanished Island is both intimate and sweeping:

• A father’s love tested by tragedy.

• A boy’s voice carried away by the river.

• A people’s struggle to keep their heritage alive.

The Brahmaputra carries many secrets. Sometimes, it carries answers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798266667372
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 157
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