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Edition · 2014-08-01 · Softcover

Victory Song

CDChitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2014
year of publication
144
pages
English (India)
language
Softcover
cover
Publisher
India Puffin
ISBN-13
978-01-4333-331-9
EAN
9780143333319
Publication date
2014-08-01
Book
Victory Song · 1 edition
The publisher on this edition

The year is 1939. In the little village of Shona Gram in Bengal, Neela hears about how the freedom fighters will stop at nothing till they send the British back. The day after her sister’s wedding , her father goes to Calcutta to join a protest march called by the Congress. He promises to be back in a week. But when three weeks go by and there is still no sign of him, Neela decides to take matters into her hand. Dressed as a wandering minstrel, she arrives in Calcutta. There she befriends Bimala, the rich daughter of a judge and cousin of Samar, a young freedom fighter Neela had rescued from the police in her village. They begin a desperate search for her father and get to know he is in jail and that he will be deported to the Andaman Islands in a few days. Neela has to free her father before that . But can a twelve-year-old girl outwit the mighty British empire? Set in a dramatic period in India’s history, this racy adventure will have you turning the pages to find out if Neela finally manages to succeed in her mission.