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The Hungry Tide
by Amitav Ghosh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the panels. A little age-toning
- ISBN 10
- 0007141777
- ISBN 13
- 9780007141777
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the panels. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Text complete, clean and tight. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1 kg); 402pp; ISBN: 0-007-14177-7 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #192159|| Condition:
Synopsis
The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. Piya Roy is a young marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. Her journey begins with a disaster, when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir. Although they have no language between them, Piya and Fokir are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. As the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll that is every bit as powerful as the ravaging tide. Already an international success, The Hungry Tide is a prophetic novel of remarkable insight, beauty, and humanity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 192159
- Title
- The Hungry Tide
- Author
- Amitav Ghosh
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the panels. A little age-toning
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0007141777
- ISBN 13
- 9780007141777
- Publisher
- London: HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- india fiction, ecological disturbances fiction, women scientists fiction, human ecology fiction, rural poor fiction, dolphins fiction, tides fiction, 20th century indian authors, indic fiction, first edition books, books written by amitav ghosh, 0-007-141
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