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| Author | Godfrey Joseph Pereira |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical_fiction |
| Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | Speaking_Tiger_Books |
Publication date | December 20, 2021 |
| Publication place | India |
| Pages | 296 |
| ISBN | 9789354472176 |
Four And Twenty Black Birds: The Insane Life Of An English Smuggler In Bombay.[1], is a novel by author Godfrey Joseph Pereira[2]. It was published in December 2021 by Speaking Tiger Books, in India. The framework of the book (plot and characters) stems from actual letters. The letters were given to Pereira, by the grandson of the original author of the letters, a few years after Pereira first read the letters, in a bar in South London’s Croydon[3].
The letters were a gold mine that detailed the tragic story of the young man’s grandfather, which unfolded on Cross Island, an uninhabited stretch of land off the Bombay coast, ending with his incarceration at an asylum in England[3].
Plot summary
editThe story of how Charlie Strongbow, born in Bombay, a renegade Englishman, mercenary, philosopher and schizophrenic, began his own bizarre journey.
Set in 1947, the year India gained it's freedom, Charlie, along with an Englishman called Thommo, an accountant named Willie, a Portuguese lady, Dona Maria, and twenty other British men, took possession of Cross Island near the Bombay Docks.
On Cross Island, bound by no rules or principles they set up and ran a black-market trade between Southampton and Bombay.
There was no stopping Charlie — but for his own past filled with the misery of childhood abuse and guilt at having abandoned his daughters. As he drank himself to senselessness and let his inner demons take over, Detective Desai, a man Charlie had destroyed, raised a war against Cross Island. But the severest blow of all would be struck by Dona Mari.
Based on true events, Four and Twenty Blackbirds[4] is considered an utterly gripping novel— the disturbing, astonishing story of an Englishman who won everything but lost his soul on a no man’s land in the Arabian Sea[5]
References
edit- ^ Pereira, Joseph (2021). Four And Twenty Black Birds: The Insane Life Of An English Smuggler In Bombay (1st ed.). India: Speaking_Tiger_Books. ISBN 9789354472176.
- ^ "Godfrey Joseph Pereira". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ^ a b "Island of Bombay no one knows about". Mid-day. December 26, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ^ Pereira, Godfrey Joseph (December 20, 2021). FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS THE INSANE LIFE OF AN ENGLISH SMUGGLER IN BOMBAY. Speaking Tiger Books. ISBN 978-93-5447-223-7.
- ^ "Four and Twenty Blackbirds: The Insane Life of an English Smuggler in Bombay - Speaking Tiger Books". December 16, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2022.