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A Flight Of Green Parrots
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- By Dipak Basu |
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A Flight of Green Parrots is the sensitive and action-packed story of Pauline
Wainwright, an English village girl, who is transported against her will to
a strange and faraway land. As events around her accelerate toward the
calamity that became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta, her character is transformed under fire from
an adolescent rustic teenager to a pillar of inspiration for a beleagured garrsion. In A Flight of Green
Parrots you will breathlessly follow the impossible romance between Pauline and Prince Ajoy, as they
are thrown together in a cauldron of adventure and heartbreak. |
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You will meet idealist, adventurer and trader, Benjamin Morley, as the three friends cast themselves into a mad scramble to avert a terrible catastrophe. The backdrop for this brilliantly-plotted historical novel with its rural idylls, vivid battle
scenes and shattering climax, is the vast, crumbling, strife-ridden land that is 18th century India. |
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It was just after daybreak on June 20th 1756. Under dark clouds in a lowering sky with the threat of
monsoon rain, a palace guard of the Bengal Army was trying to push open the iron door to a makeshift
prison cell inside a battle-scarred fortress. Devastation of war lay all around him. The guard was
surprised at the effort it was taking him to get the door open, for he was unaware of the bodies massed
behind it. With the help of hastily summoned colleagues, the guard at last got the door open and stood
back aghast as twenty two men and one woman staggered out or were helped from the cell, only to be
overwhelmed by the abundant morning air and collapse on debris-strewn grass of the fort’s parade
ground. The released prisoners left one hundred and twenty-three dead behind. |
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