{"product_id":"the-river-of-grey-flowers-a-novel","title":"The River of Grey Flowers: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rejimon Kuttappan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Tiger Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 10-03-2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003e\nReal Lives Saved, then remembered.\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Easow is a Dalit fisherman’s son from the Tamil coast who believes work might deliver him into dignity. Instead, a promise of employment in Thailand carries him across checkpoints into the lawless shadows of the South East Asian Golden Triangle. There, the dream of prosperity is replaced by a terrifying modern nightmare: cyber-slavery.\u003cbr\u003e\nTrapped inside a high-security scam compound, John and his companions are forced to defraud strangers online while facing the brutality of electric batons and the dreaded ‘Tiger Bench.’ What begins as a dangerous, forbidden love story back home unfurls into a harrowing account of captivity, coercion, and the desperate brotherhood formed under the threat of erasure on foreign soil.\u003cbr\u003e\nThreaded through this brutal geography is the Moei River—marking the border between Thailand and Myanmar, a living archive of the lost. As John plots a survival that seems impossible, memory becomes his resistance: of a father claimed by the sea, of Kathavarayan the rebel god, and of the stubborn, unextinguished insistence on being human.\u003cbr\u003e\nAt once intimate and epic, The River of Grey Flowers moves between myth and reportage, the sacred and the transactional. It is a novel about what the world asks of the expendable—and what, against all odds, they still carry with them: memory, defiance, and the fragile hope of return. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789363368620\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Speaking Tiger Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51287262560560,"sku":"PrakashBooks_9789363368620","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/71EXwI5R8uL.jpg?v=1775237588","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-river-of-grey-flowers-a-novel","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}