The Sly Company of People who Care Author:Rahual Bhattacharaya A 26 year old cricket journalist chucks his job in Bombay and arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, meandering beauty. amid decaying 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 place where des... more »cendants of the enslaved and indentured have made a new life. Ultimately, he prepares to mount an adventure own his own. This journey will take him beyond Guyanese borders, and his companion will be the feisty, wild-haired Jan. In this dazzling novel, powered by a singularly energetic and inventive voice, Rahul captures the joyous pulse of Caribbean music, the overheated restlessness of youth, and the paradoxes of searching for life's meaning in the escape from home.« less