A lot of rich story but not quite my cup of tea

⭑⭑⭑  Gun Island is part adventure story, part mythology, part social analysis and partly a personal witness to environmental crisis. In it we take a look at a number of weighty subjects; the power of story and mythology but mainly migrant refugees and mankind's detrimental impact on the our planet. Deen is our, rather, unwitting narrator who globe trots around the world experiencing all of this firsthand from America to India and Venice. Deen is Bengali by birth but lives in New York selling rare books. This is where I expected the story to take us - hunting down the details of the mythical story of the gun merchant. But, this is the just the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of miles and a great many personal stories to be harvested by Deen as he travels the world. These stories feed into the gun merchant tale, loosely, as he discovers far more about modern day issues than he could have anticipated. The gun merchant is really just the beginning.

A book filled with empathy, deep insight into topics that will remain with us for generations and the power of our own personal stories, Gun Island will take you places you least expect in a richly told, deeply felt way.