Hungry Tide

Version: Unabridged
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Narrator: Firdous Bamji
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date: May 2005
Length: 15 hours, 45 minutes
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Overview

In a region of India known as the Sundarbans exist an archipelago of islands set in tidal rivers that feed the Bay of Bengal. Within this exotic habitat exist man-eating tigers, a rare and elusive breed of river dolphins, devastating typhoons and tidal waves making the region both beautiful and treacherous. Enter wealthy Indian translator Kenai, who travels home to the Sundarbans to receive a mysterious notebook left for him by a dead uncle. En route he meets Piya, an American-raised marine biologist, also on her way to the region to study the near-mythical Ganges river dolphin. As each grapples with the Indian heritage that defines them, they become swept up in the forces--natural and political--that threaten to destroy the region and its way of life.

Author Details

Author Details

Ghosh, Amitav

Writer and anthropologist Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and spent his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and northern India. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Egypt, and has taught in various Indian and American universities. He is the author of three books: "The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines" and "In An Antique Land" and has written for "The New Yorker, Granta, The New Republic" and "The New York Times." Mr. Ghosh and his wife, Deborah Baker, live in New York with their two children.