- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (7 Jun 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007141777
- ISBN-13: 978-0007141777
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 499,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'An exceptional writer.' Peter Matthieson'A novelist of dazzling ingenuity' San Francisco Chronicle'A distinctive voice, polished and profound' Times Literary Supplement'An absorbing story of a world in transition, brought to life through characters who love and suffer with equal intensity.' JM Coetzee'Ghosh is one of the most sympathetic post-colonial voices to be heard today. He looks at love and loyalty, and examines the question of Empire and responsibility, of tradition and modernity.' Ahdaf Souief'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation of Indians writing in English' Financial Times'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer...a deeply serious writer, sure of his human and historical insights and confident in his ability to communicate them. I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling to go so far, so fast' The Times'Ghosh seamlessly blends ideas about the power of the photographic image with unforgettable descriptions of nature -- in a thoroughly enjoyable, intelligent epic that's bound to win him a wide and grateful readership'. Kirkus Reviews'Ghosh's voice remains distinctive...it has a lush and sensuous quality which renders even the most historical of passages wonderfully readable.' Belfast Telegraph'As always Ghosh wields his pen lightly, with supple prose being the order of the day.' Sunday Business Post'Ghosh vividly brings to life the history of Burma and Malaya over a century of momentous change in this teeming, multigenerational saga.' Publishers Weekly'You feel that Ghosh speaks with the true voice of the sub-continent, wise, superstitious and set firmly in age-old ritual.' Birmingham Post'I will never forget the young and old Rajkumar, Dolly, the Princesses, the forests of teak, the wealth that made families and wars. A wonderful novel. An incredible story.' Grace Paley
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'Skillfully depicts this truly vengeful place...where fantasy and reality constantly overlap'
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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read,
By Johan Klovsjö (Linköping, Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hungry Tide (Hardcover)
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is a story about love and life, politics and ecology, nature weather and myth, set in the Ganghes/Brahmaputra delta in Sundabar, India. The language is straightforward, and the keeper is how the different topics are connected at the core.A young scientist comes to the area researching river dolphins and gets caught up in a love triangle with the proud, educated, male visitor, and the 'wild' and simple, native, fisher. Through a notebook of the educated man's uncle we live through the story of not one but two generations on a similar theme in the area.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Sundeeerrrrbans,
By Yuva (Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hungry Tide (Paperback)
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh,.. focuses on Sunderbans - a vast archipelago of islands lying below Calcutta on the gulf between India and Bangladesh.
Two travellers venture into the Sunderbans - Piya, an American scientist of Indian descent, who is researching the endangered Urawaddy river dophins said to inhabit these tidal waters and Kanai - an urban New Delhi translator and businessman, who is visiting his aunt to receive an old notebook written by his uncle before he died mysteriously in a local uprising. Piya hires an illiterate boatman, Fokir, to guide her through the backwaters in her search for the dolphins and Kanai comes along to translate. The tension between the three rises and they each must learn about themselves as they face the dangers thrown at them by the Sunderban. Book explains the history of the Sunderban region, the precarious ecology of the endangered river dolphins and the conservation projects surrounding the great Bengal tiger still living on these waterlogged islands. Kanai's uncle's notebook reveals the shocking story of the Morichjhapi incident, where tens of thousands of displaced refugees try and settle on one of the uninhabited islands but are violently evicted by the government in the name of conservation. Through his characters' very different mind-sets, Ghosh posits urgent questions about humankind's place in nature in an atmospheric and suspenseful drama of love and survival that has particular resonance in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami. The Hungry Tide is a compelling book about ordinary people bound together in an exotic place that can consume them all. It's the basest of human emotions, love, jealousy, pride, and trust.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful, evocative, thoughtful, but weak characterisation,
By Parvati P. (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hungry Tide (Paperback)
I enjoyed reading this book for its setting most of all. The boat journeys through the Sunderbans area of Bengal were very evocative and a joy to read. It's a pity Ghosh could not work the same magic in devising his characters. Like other readers I was not convinced by the attraction between Piya and Fokir, and did not really understand the relationship between Kanai and Piya. It was almost as if the Sundarbans was the main character and the characters Piya, Fokir and Kanai were the backdrop.
I was intrigued enough to keep going with the subplot of the uprising but felt it was an anticlimax when Kanai came to the end of his uncles book detailing the uprising involving Fokir's mother but without actually telling us what happened to her. And anyway I did not care enough about Kanai to relate the uprising to him. The book is well researched and well written, with interesting insights and beautiful descriptions, however without well-drawn characters it feels like a beautifully written essay rather than a novel. Still, one can enjoy an essay, too, so a well-deserved four stars for this one. As a lover of books about India, I find that Ghosh is a strong writer and I intend to read more of his work. I have just bought the highly acclaimed `Glass Palace'
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