The Hungry Tide
A India, Fiction, Cultural book. How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard,...
About the Book : Between the sea and the plains of Bengal, on the easternmost coast of India, lies an immense archipelago of islands. Some are vast and some no larger than sandbars; some have lasted through recorded history while others have just washed into being. These are the Sundarbans. Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. Here, for hundreds of year only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers and the crocodiles who rule there, to eke a precarious existence from the mud. Here, at the beginning of the last century, a vision Scotsman founded a utopian...
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- Pages: 402 pages
- ISBN: 9780007432974 / 7432976
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dolphins in the water. He recalled that the dolphins usually gathered there when Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide // I had a book in my hands to while away the time and it occurred to me that in a way a landscape is not unlike a book - a compilation of pages that overlap without two ever being the same. People open the book according to their taste and training, their memories and desires. On occasion these pages are ruled with lines that are invisible to some people, while being for others, as real, as charged and as volatile as high-voltage cables. Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide // ON THE BANKS of every great river youll find a monument to excess.Kanai recalled the list of examples Nirmal had provided to prove this: the opera house of Manaus, the temple of Karnak, the ten thousand pagodas of Pagan. In the years since, he had visited many of those places, and it made him laugh to think his uncle had insisted that Canning too had a place on that list: The mighty Matlas monument is Port Canning. Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide //
I loved it! I dreaded picking it up, but for $1 at the local library's sale shelves, it wad hard to resist. I did. Then I sat on it a good while. Then I started and then kicked myself for not starting earlier. I have been reading so many Indian authors that it got a bit repetitive. Then Bengali authors have the propensity to romance... I have mixed feelings about "The Hungry Tide." Amitav Ghosh tells a large story firmly set in a particular place--the Mangrove-covered islands in the estuary of the Ganges River. The story has everything: love, class-difference, political conflict, natural and man-made catastrophes, and, of course, dolphins, tigers, and crocodiles (dangerous... Such a brilliant book, remarkable storytelling, plot and wing. After a long time, this is one book that I had trouble putting down.Even after having read the book, am in deep at - at the story, the author, people of the tide country, the tiger and the dolphins.
