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The Hungry Tide. ISBN: Type: Novel. Publisher: HarperCollins. In between the sea and the plains of Bengal, on the easternmost coast of India, lies an immense archipelago of islands. Some of these islands are vast and some no larger than sandbars; some have lasted through recorded history while others have just washed into being. In The Hungry Tide, Ghosh treats these events as background. The novel tells the story of two people, a young Indian-American scientist and an older Indian man whose lives converge in the Sundarbans. Piyali (Piya) Roy is a cetologist who has come to India to study river dolphins, a species discovered in the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar (then part of India)/5().  · The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh As always with Amitav Ghosh, his narrative technique refuses to follow a linear pattern, instead it criss-crosses across events of varying decades to foreground the concept of home and homelessness in The Hungry Tide. Probing into the politically charged massacre of Bangladeshi refugees in Marichjhapi, Ghosh investigates homelessness as a naturalized Cited by:

Amitav Ghosh has discovered yet another new territory, summoning a singular place from its history, language and myth and bringing it to life. Yet the achievement of The Hungry Tide is in its exploration of a far darker and more unknowable jungle, the human heart. It is a novel that asks at every turn: what danger resides there, and what delusion? The Hungry Tide is a novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. Taking place in the aftermath of the devastating Tsunami in the Indian Ocean that devastated the entire area, The Hungry Tide takes place primarily in the Sundarbans, a massive mangrove forest that is split between West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. In The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh takes the reader on a journey into one of the world's most unique ecosystems. Following behind two outsiders who have little forewarning of what secrets and dangers await them. The Sundarbans is a region that straddles the border of what is today India and Bangladesh, where the land meets the Bay of Bengal.

The Hungry Tide, Indian author Amitav Ghosh’s epic, is set in the Bay of Bengal, a remote corner of eastern India that is home to the Sundarbans, a collection of tiny islands linked by rivers. The novel is told from two perspectives: that of Piya Roy, an American scientist researching river dolphins, and Kanai Dutt, a New Delhi translator on a trip to see his aunt. The Hungry Tide. ISBN: Type: Novel. Publisher: HarperCollins. In between the sea and the plains of Bengal, on the easternmost coast of India, lies an immense archipelago of islands. Some of these islands are vast and some no larger than sandbars; some have lasted through recorded history while others have just washed into being. The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh As always with Amitav Ghosh, his narrative technique refuses to follow a linear pattern, instead it criss-crosses across events of varying decades to foreground the concept of home and homelessness in The Hungry Tide. Probing into the politically charged massacre of Bangladeshi refugees in Marichjhapi, Ghosh investigates homelessness as a naturalized event that gripped South Asia during the years of s and s.