Publisher's Synopsis
Birds That Fly Ahead is the English translation of the Malayalam work Munpeparakkunna Pakshikal, a bestseller running into more than a dozen editions and winning as many as seven major Awards. Presenting in its background many an untold part of an extremist upsurge that took place in India four decades back and the way it has influenced the fabric of life ever since, the novel deeply explores human nature and thought in the drive for a happier and saner world. After this earth and the human community came into being, so many great souls have flown ahead, showing and leaving open the routes to worlds of lasting happiness. But we still, either unknowingly or wilfully, prefers the path to the butcher-houses we ourselves built to reach there!The book is a modern Indian classic, the work of a master craftsman, different in style, rich in content, revealing and invigorating.
