02304nam a2200241Ia 4500 OSt 20230624122330.0 210210b2011 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978817530021 9788172236137 AL eng 820.33 23 GHOH Amitav Ghosh 124618 Hungry tide New Delhi Harper Collins Publishers India 2011 viii,402p. HB 22x14cm. From the author of the Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh’s new novel. In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. And it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society, of all races and religions and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. Indian English Fiction 124619 Indian English Novel 124621 GHOSH (Amitav) 124620 066336 ddc BK 88830 88830 0 0 0 0 English AL AL English Literature 2021-02-17 Athree Book Centre Balmatta, Mangalore-01 299.00 3 820.33 GHOH 066336 2024-03-09 00:00:00 2023-07-21 2021-02-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2023-06-17 2 820.33 GHOH D05903 2025-08-07 14:26:33 2025-07-30 2023-06-23 DB