This very fascinating and exciting book is about the discovery of dolphin-communication. It deals with the intelligence, dolphins have and with the cruel fishing methods of tuna-fish, which includes the needless death of thousands of dolphins.

Although all of these ecological aspects, it's also a love story and it raises sometimes the question of the sense of the work someone (anyone) is doing.

I read the book in a few days and could hardly put it down. It may be a fantasy book and perhaps even a science fiction book, because there is some true evidence, regarding the intelligence of dolphins in the real world. The story is expanding on that premise.

To close, I like to quote a few lines, which have touched me (page 117):

“Daniel ducked his head under the water again and waved the cube back and forth in front of his face; the dolphin watched for a moment, then gently took the toy from Daniel’s hand with his teeth, reared his head back up above the surface and threw it some fifty feet away.

Daniel felt a rush of amazement. He was actually playing with this wild creature, bigger than he was, in its own environment! He swam quickly to retrieve the cube, brought it back, and waggled it in front of his face again. The dolphin took it in his mouth again, and once more tossed it a dozen yards across the water. Swimming toward the floating yellow cube again, Daniel suddenly realized what was happening: The dolphin was teaching him to play fetch.

Daniel started to laugh as he swam, so hard he almost swallowed a mouthful of seawater, so hard that – well, he couldn’t really remember when he’d last laughed that thouroughly or spontaneously. Not for a long, long time. And that, he suddenly knew, had been the dolphin’s gift to him.” ( )