This is the first book I read of Amitava Ghosh.The one thing about this book that has captivated me most is the language. Such beautiful language is hard to come across nowadays in contemporary novels. Ghosh excels in this field, no doubt.
The story is about a cetologist Piyali Roy & her research in the Sunderbans. The other important characters are Kanai Dutt , a translator , based in Delhi, Nilima Roy his aunt & Fokir, a fisherman who helps in Piyali’s expedition.
It is a story about how the lives of all these characters get entwined in the beautiful forests of the Sunderbans. Their individual desperations come to the fore on the gangetic plains.
The highlight of the story is its simplicity & the genius of the writer to potray the most banal incidents with extraordinary charm. All in all its a book that takes you right in the heart of Sunderban & lets you observe its beauty through your own eyes.