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Originally posted by: Destiny_rose
This is beautiful writing!But I've heard a lot of not so good things about his books like they just drag on. Can you do a short review when you're done with the book? I hate goodreads reviews because they confuse me.
I didn't feel like it dragged on at all! (Though, that might be because I couldn't read much of it at one stretch because of work).
It was the first book of his that I read, so I can't talk about similarities with his other books, so I'll just say what I felt:
It's (mostly) about these 3 characters -- Kanai, a translator from Delhi who goes to Lusibari (an island in the Sunderbans) to get his uncle's diary which was left for him, Piya, an Indian American researching dolphins, Fokir, a local fisherman. Kanai is visiting after a long time, he remembers only 1 friend he'd made here -- Kusum. The chapters alternate between the past (his uncle's diary, which revolves around Kusum, his revolutionary ideas, etc., and also features a child Fokir), and the present, where Fokir's great knowledge of the seas and rivers helps Piya's research even though they don't have a common language. Basically, it's about how all their lives become connected (along with others -- Nirmal's diary, Kusum, Fokir's wife Moyna)especially to Fokir's and how the local landscape, with all it's dangers, also changes the way these people, especially Piya and Kanai, think and behave. It's about love, nature, the revolutions and brutalities of the past, and about survival.
My favourite thing was that it involves a lot of story-telling and using those stories of the past to understand the present and why characters behave in a certain way... Overall, a great book.
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