Alan Cheuse reviews The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh. The book's characters inhabit a region of thousands of islands in the Ganges Delta on the India-Bangladesh border. From NPR News, this is ALL ...

The book has been translated into Persian by Nahideh Hashemi. Published in 2004, "The Hungry Tide" is the fourth novel by acclaimed Indian author Amitav Ghosh. Set against the mesmerizing backdrop of ...

Amitav Ghosh tops my list of authors I wish readers everywhere would get to know better. Journalist, novelist and travel writer, with a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford, Ghosh’s 2001 novel ...

KOLKATA: An intriguing love triangle set in the world’s largest tiger reserve is being turned into a Bollywood film, in a rare celluloid adaptation of a best-selling Indian novel. “The Hungry Tide” ...

In The Hungry Tide, Ghosh discusses time in the Sundarbans as one of the forest’s many illusions: “The tide country’s jungle was an emptiness, where time stood still. I saw now that this was an ...

The Hungry Tide is set in the Sunderbans, the vast swampy delta where the Ganges meets the Bay of Bengal. As the title suggests, the tide is central to this region, alternately submerging and exposing ...

You can always smell the salt on the breeze on the Bolivar Peninsula, and slices of life seldom come thinner: its 2,196 souls huddle together on a spit of land that narrows down to a mere quarter-mile ...