The Hungry Tide
By: Amitav Ghosh.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Americans -- Sundarbans (Bangladesh and India) -- Fiction; Ecological disturbances -- Fiction; Women scientists -- Fiction; Human ecology -- Fiction; Rural poor -- Fiction; Dolphins -- Fiction; Tides -- Fiction; Sundarbans (Bangladesh and India) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life there is precarious, ruled by the tides and the constant threat of attacks by Bengal tigers. Into this small community come two seekers from different worlds, whose lives collide with tragic consequences.