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Today I'm going to review another book of folktales. I love folktales! This book is about the folktales from the soil of Bihar. It is The Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar by Nalin Verma.
Firstly, let's just appreciate this beautiful and aesthetically pleasing cover. Do you also have this habit of being drawn to a book just because it's cover is so beautiful? Well, readers say, “Don't judge a book by it's cover” but many readers, including me, fall for beautiful book covers. Let's just appreciate the talented cover designer who gave so many hours in designing the cover.
This book is a collection of the oral folktales passed down from generation to generation. These are penned down by Nalin Verma, an independent journalist from Bihar. These folktales comes from his village where there was an oral tradition of narrating these folktales. There are a total of thirty-seven folktales, all delicately divided into sections like, Wisdom of the Birds, Animal Kingdom, Gods, Demons and Faith and much more. There is also a glossary at the end which includes the meaning of the few Bhojpuri and Hindi words used in this book. The language is quite simple and the stories are brimming with village wisdom.
Read this book for a dose of simple and fluid folktales!
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