"This is a love story based on the author's ongoing affair with an exotic land.... Novak] captures the reader's attention, admiration and sympathy and then describes straightforwardly the external and internal elements of thinking and policy that are detrimental to the country's survival." --Foreign Service Journal

..". personal and well-informed analysis... Another fine addition to the 'Essential Asia Series'." --Asiaweek

"This rich meditation on the land and people but especially the waters of Bangladesh is a masterpiece of journalism." --The Reader's Review

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