Description

A modern tale of adventure, identification, and heritage by acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh.   Off the easternmost part of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the enormous maze of small islands referred to as the Sundarbans, where residents reside in anxiety about drowning man and tides -eating tigers. Piya Roy, a National marine biologist of Indian ancestry, comes in this rich, dangerous landscape looking for a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the assistance of a translator and an area angler. Together the three of these start into the backwaters, attracted unawares into the effective political undercurrents of the remote part whilst the tides of a personal toll that is exacted by the world as intense.