Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sunderban by Amitav GhoshMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hooter: A mythological folklore in the form of dwipodi-poyer (metering in couplets)
Amitav Ghosh tries the art of writing verse metering in about 24 syllables per couplet or roughly 12 per line. Technically challenging no doubt and you have to appreciate him for that attempt. Getting over the technicalities, this is a spin off from his "Hungry Tide" about the legend of Bon Bibi and Dokkhin Rai - a fable that has a lot of history associated around Sunderbans and is a local legend lasting over centuries and generations through oral history.
With the illustrations and easy flowing language, this easily falls under the genre of children's books considering it's petite size too with a moral to end the fable with.
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