- Ecological disturbances, Tides, Fiction, Rural poor
Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life there is precarious, ruled by the tides and the constant threat of attacks by Bengal tigers. Into this small community come two seekers from different worlds, whose lives collide with tragic consequences.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Amitav Ghosh, Yaʻel Akhmon
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 377
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc., Yanshuf, HARPER COLLINS INDIA
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- heb, und, English
- ISBN
- 9780007432974
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“KANAI SPOTTED HER the moment he stepped onto the crowded platform: he was deceived neither by her close-cropped black hair nor by her clothes, which were those of a teenage boy - loose cotton pants and an oversized white shirt.”
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