Tongues I

Tongues I

Rs. 1,699.00
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Tongues I

Tongues I

Author: Anders Nilsen

Publisher: Jonathan Cape

ISBN: 9781787330658

Rs. 1,699.00
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In the remotest reaches of Central Asia where rival groups war over oil, a minor god is chained to a mountainside. Unfolding in a series of conversations with his unlikely friend the eagle, who visits every day to carry out a gruesome sentence of torture, Tongues I follows the titan’s pursuit of revenge on the god that imprisoned him.

Entwined with their story are those of Astrid, a teenage East African orphan on an errand of murder, and a man with a teddy bear strapped to his back wandering aimlessly in the wilderness.

Tongues I is a postmodern, apocalyptic reimagining of Prometheus' story, here a fallible god failing in his duty as the creator and protector of humanity.

A visual meditation on our deep evolutionary past and our complicated prospects for the future,
Tongues I is both a propulsive story of adventure and an examination of human nature in our present moment.

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