![]() ![]() This is a densely forested region with its own unique ecosystem. The setting is the Sunderbans mangrove forest in the northeast of Bengal. Three people from different ways of life come together when Piya, the marine biologist, hires the urbane Kanai and the illiterate Fokir to accompany her to the Sunderbans to track river dolphins.įirst up, I want to talk about the setting. This is a straightforward book, but at the heart of it lies a lot of complexity. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, drawn unawares into the powerful political undercurrents of this isolated corner of the world that exact a personal toll as fierce as the tides. ![]() Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape searching for a rare species of river dolphin and enlists a local fisherman and a translator. ![]() Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. ![]()
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