Trained as an engineer and steered by his family away from herding, Ravi spends one summer in the hills with the household flock and finds the jungle far harder than the labour.
The novel stays close to that season: nights when every sound becomes a big cat and every vine a snake, a hyena strike that leaves him frozen, and then a tiger that begins taking animals from the herd. Around Ravi it builds the tangled world of golla shepherds, their sheep and the creatures they share the hills with, so the fear and the landscape grow together on the page.
Key things to know:
• Set across a single herding season in hill and forest country
• Centres on a young man caught between education and inherited work
• Draws the daily routines of shepherds and their animals in close detail
• Treats fear itself as the terrain the central character must cross
A good fit for readers of literary fiction about rural life, animals and coming of age, and it can be ordered at Boipoka.
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