Amitav Ghosh
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| Original Title: | The Hungry Tide |
| ISBN: | 061871166X (ISBN13: 9780618711666) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Sundarbans(Bangladesh) |
| Literary Awards: | Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Fiction (2006), Crossword Book Award for Fiction (2004) |
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Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, drawn unawares into the powerful political undercurrents of this isolated corner of the world that exact a personal toll as fierce as the tides.Present Out Of Books The Hungry Tide
| Title | : | The Hungry Tide |
| Author | : | Amitav Ghosh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 333 pages |
| Published | : | June 7th 2006 by Mariner Books (first published June 7th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 13964 Users | 1087 ReviewsArticle Out Of Books The Hungry Tide
If Shadow Lines enthralled you, Amitav Ghosh's latest masterpiece, the Hungry Tide, will sweep you off your feet, and into the precarious waters of the Sundarbans.In the typical Ghosh style, the narrative moves fluidly between past and present. You will be transported into the mindset of the superstitious yet brave folk, who have adapted themselves to the constant ebb and flow of the tide and are living in continuous fear of the Bengal tigers. The tide begins to turn with the advent of twoJust like any other Ghosh's book, The Hungry Tide takes you to an unknown territory, The Sundarbans. For Indians, we associate Sundarbans with Tigers. But Amitav Ghosh through The Hungry Tide will make you read a totally different side of Sundarbans. A deep history of marshy swamplands, crocodiles, rebellion during Bangladesh war. The last book that I read by Amitav Ghosh was the Glass Palace, which took me to Burma, a place which was alien to me, but not anymore. And that is the beauty of
It was an interesting but not a phenomenal, and in some part, even a disappointing read. The characters could have been fleshed out far far more.....it was almost as if the language barrier kept even the reader from understanding Fokir to any measurable depth. The relationships between the various characters were left largely unexplored. I wish that the human interactions/histories had been dealt with the same passion as the geology of the Sunderbans. The storms that shaped the lives of the
Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide is an ode to the Tide Country. The prose does not unfold a story - but exists much like the background music for a scene out of a painting.Based on a few real incidents, actual research and experiences - the book has 3 different themes. One that gives you the feel of watching a discovery channel documentary, one of reading a poet's muse and the other the tides of human emotions transcending language, faith and nature. And surprisingly in all 3 themes Ghosh
I loved it! I dreaded picking it up, but for $1 at the local library's sale shelves, it wad hard to resist. I did. Then I sat on it a good while. Then I started and then kicked myself for not starting earlier. I have been reading so many Indian authors that it got a bit repetitive. Then Bengali authors have the propensity to romance even dry bran, and I mean that in a nice way, so I was pleasantly shocked that though he was as descriptive as they are, he did not ramble. The descriptions were
Amitav Ghosh, the author of The Circle of Reason and The Shadow Lines, weaves a complex fabric with some of the fundamentals of the deepest corners of our mind: the animistic instinct, the urge to discover, and the magnetism of finding one's roots. All this woven against a primitive landscape of water and silt, time set against tidal surges and mangrove forest, a flat land low against a stormy sky in the Bengal delta, a place that Ghosh brings alive with the apparent deftness of long
I wish I could give this book 3.5 stars, it would have been ideal.Ghosh paints a mesmerising picture of the Sunderbans, a part of the country that you don't hear or read about all that often. He doesn't sugar-coat things much, hence you see it in its true light; the description of natural beauty, along with the perils and dangers. My only issue was that he sometimes overdoes the whole ''tide country'' bit, and it sometimes felt a bit forced.The book is definitely well-written, with interesting
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