The Hungry Tide
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.
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 and he grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ghosh studied at The Doon School in Dehradun and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. Works : The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire, Gun Island, Jungle Nama, The Living Mountain, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma, Countdown, The Imam and the Indian, Incendiary Circumstances, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Uncanny and Improbable Events etc.