The Sly Company of People Who Care

by Rahul Bhattacharya

Book Overview

In flight from the tame familiarity of home in Bombay, a twenty-six-year-old cricket journalist chucks his job and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerizing beauty. Amid beautiful, decaying wooden houses in Georgetown, on coastal sugarcane plantations, and in the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond hunters, he grows absorbed with the fantastic possibilities of this new place where descendants of the enslaved and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374265852
• ISBN13: 9780374265854
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"