'An intriguing tale of history, folklore, ecology, migration, love and grief.' Independent

Between the sea and the plains of Bengal lies an immense archipelago of islands. Here, for hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers and the crocodiles the rule there, to eke out a precarious existence from the mud.

The settlers of the Sundarbans believe that anyone without a pure heart who ventures into the watery labyrinth will never return. It is the arrival of Piya Roy, of Indian parentage but stubbornly American, and Kanai Dutt, a sophisticated Dehli businessman, that disturbs the delicate balance of settlement life. From this moment, the tide begins to turn.

'The haunting quality of this novel stays in the memory' Sunday Telegraph