THE HUNGRY TIDE – Romance by Ghosh Amitav

Writer, journalist and Indian anthropologist Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta. The son of a diplomat, he grew up in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. At the age of 13, he went to study in Dehradun, while the family had moved to Iran. Move briefly in the United States, knows his wife Deborah. He has taught creative writing at Columbia University in New York, but today India’s largest English-speaking writer lives between New York and Goa.

Reading the pages of this novel – The Hungry Tide – you know a woman who has just arrived in Canning, the last stop for the Sundarban, the immense archipelago which stretches between the sea and the plains of Bengal and that, according to legend, was born on the day that the braid of the god Shiva was defeat. She is a young marine biologist born in Bengal, but raised in the United States. She arrived in this green labyrinth to plumb the depths of the sea. On water courses she has always felt protected by his delicate features of a young Indian woman. Here, she knows that her appearance deprives it of all protection. Aboard a boat made of reeds, bamboo leaves and fragile wooden planks, he knows this universe, where there are no boundaries between fresh and salt water, river and sea, land and water on a daily basis since the tides penetrate even into the plains Bengal and forests and entire islands disappearing.

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