Jungle Nama by Amitav Ghosh

Jungle Nama by Amitav Ghosh'One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts,crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts. This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth; to a vast jungle that joins Ocean and Earth. Jungle Nama is a beautifully illustrated verse adaptation of a legend from the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. It tells the story of the avaricious rich merchant Dhona,

showcases both the variety of his writing and early examples of the themes and characters which would find their way into his later novels

and the gulf between the rhetoric that elevated island life and the reality of the political hostility towards them

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provides an unforgettable reading experience that has lost none of its power to shock and continues to thrill and terrify new readers

'A perfect page-turner

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'A gripping tale of savagery and courage

Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind

a surrealistic vision of eternity

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with a girl her friends can't stand - Ishu Dey