" 13 Men " is Deca 's fifth story , written by Sonia Faleiro , published in February , 2015 . The book draws on court documents , several witness accounts and an exclusive interview with the victim of a gang-rape in a small village in West Bengal . The piece explores the intersection of violence against women and the marginalization of ethnic minorities in India . It gives a graphic account of the incident reconstructed from the victims recollection , interviews , police reports and photographs recovered during the investigation . In a detailed , narrative style it retraces the precise timeline of the circumstances surrounding the crime as well as the history of the village where it took place , exploring the complicated dynamics at play when someone is victimized by a community that has also been subjected to decades of violence , damaging stereotypes and oppression from society at large . A review in Mint called it " narrative non-fiction at its most powerful . " Faleiro is the author of '' Beautiful Thing : Inside the Secret World of Bombay 's Dance Bars . '' " The Wizard and the Volcano " is Deca 's sixth book , written by Marc Herman , published in April , 2015 . The book revolves around the wizard of Mount Merapi in Java , Indonesia , a mystic figure who refuses to obey an evacuation order for an impending volcanic eruption . As conditions in temporary evacuation camps become cramped and increasingly desperate , disaster strikes unexpectedly where only the wizard had predicted and thousands of evacuated residents begin returning to their abandoned homes and livelihoods in the danger zone of the active volcano . Through the lens of interviews with the wizard , NGO reports , local legends and firsthand reporting over the course of the eruption , the book explores the role of foreign aid , government , local authorities and history in shaping how a high-stakes crisis unfolds in a disaster-prone country . The book was published on the two-hundred-year anniversary of the largest volcanic blast in recorded history , Indonesia ’s deadly Tambora eruption in April 1815
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