The Hungry Tide
A Novel
by Amitav Ghosh
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Climate Change and Fiction.
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 maneating 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 an...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Climate Change and Fiction.
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“@srijanapiya17 @GhoshAmitav It?s a brilliant book. One I have both read and taught here in Cambridge.”
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