‘The Hungry Tide’ by Amitav Ghosh (C)Aishwary Mehta
Stars – 4/5
About the Author – Amitav Ghosh is one of India’s best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986.
The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France’s top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001. The Hungry Tide won the Hutch Crossword Book Prize in 2006. In 2007 Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Turin, Italy. Amitav Ghosh has written for many publications, including the Hindu, The New Yorker and Granta, and he has served on the juries of several international film festivals, including Locarno and Venice. He has taught at many universities in India and the USA, including Delhi University, Columbia, the City University of New York and Harvard. He no longer teaches and is currently writing the next volume of the Ibis Trilogy.
He is married to the writer, Deborah Baker, and has two children, Lila and Nayan. He divides his time between Kolkata, Goa and Brooklyn.
Synopsis – Between the sea and the plains of Bengal lies an immense archipelago of islands. Here, for hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers and the crocodiles that rule there, to eke out a precarious existence from the mud.
The settlers of the Sundarbans believe that anyone without a pure heart who ventures into the watery labyrinth will never return. It is the arrival of Piya Roy, of Indian parentage but stubbornly American, and Kanai Dutt, a sophisticated Delhi businessman, that disturbs the delicate balance of settlement life. From this moment, the tide begins to turn.
About The Book – The Writing Style of The Author is Just amazing. The way he tells the Story immerses you in those words and make you visualise the Characters right in front of your Eyes. The Story Revolves around A Scientist named Piya, who came on a Survey of Dolphins found in the Sunderban Areas and A Linguistic named Kanai, who came to Lusiburi (Town In Sunderbans) to his Aunts Home/Town to get a Parcel left by a long Dead, Uncle Nirmal. The Stoy unfolds by both the Poignant meeting on a Train taking them to the same location Canning. The story goes on with both Poignant immersing themselves in their purposes of the visit and late on how they meet again and how their friendship grows with many Unexpected Encounters, Stories and Characters.
The Book is About the Life in The Tide Country, Colonization of the Sunderban, The Idea of Mr Hamilton and The story of the people residing there.
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I have read The Calcutta Chromosome and In an Antique Land. The Hungry Tide is definitely on my list! What other Amitav Ghosh books do you suggest I read? Which ones are your favorites?
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How was the Calcutta Chromosome? I haven’t read any other books of Amitav Ghosh yet, but I’m yearning to read more of his gems. The Sea of Poppies and his other works are on my to be read list this year. Do let me know when you read more of his work. 🙂
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The Calcutta Chromosome is confusing but definitely well-written! Goes back and forth between the future and the past. I’ve heard that the Hungry Tide is one of his best books, so that’s next on my list.
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