The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh

Category: Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Bengal environmentalism humanism Marichjhapi Massacre

Written by Amitav Ghosh
Read by Firdous Bamji
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Life is harsh in the Sundarbans, the treacherous islands in the Bay of Bengal where isolated inhabitants live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy is a young marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, who has come here in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. She enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator, and soon their fates on the waterways will be determined by the forces of nature and human folly.

July 1 2005
15 hrs and 39 mins