The Girl and the Tiger - by Paul Rosolie (Paperback)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

Isha loves animals but struggles in the confines of school. When she is sent away to live with her grandparents on the Indian countryside, she discovers a sacred grove where a young Bengal tiger has taken refuge. Isha knows that the ever-shrinking forests of India mean there are few places left for a tiger to hide. When the local villagers also discover the tiger, she finds herself embroiled in a life or death cultural controversy.

Isha's crusade to save the tiger becomes the catalyst of an arduous journey of awakening and survival across the changing landscape of modernizing India. Her encounters with tribal people, elephants, and her search for the wild jungle are the source of her revelations about the human relationship to the natural world in a gripping story of determination, discovery, and coming of age.

Review Quotes

"After so many years spent working in India it is a magical experience to be so viscerally transported there by Paul's writing. Through Isha's eyes we walk beside tigers and elephants, in a beautiful and tragic journey through India's threatened jungles. This is an important journey that I highly recommend you must take."

--Steve Winter, National Geographic photojournalist

"Rosolie's gripping novel examines the complex relationship between nature, man and animal, subtly foregrounding the chief concerns of the present. The numerous characters in this novel and the intertwined nature of their journeys are powerful in reality, as well as metaphorically... Only someone with an enormous love for nature and the talent to be able to see in details can produce a work of such merit."

--Vivek Shanbhag, author of Ghachar Ghochar, a NYT Critics' Top Books of 2017

"THE GIRL AND THE TIGER is our modern day THE JUNGLE BOOK . . ."

-- Lorraine Thompson, WritersKitchen