The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh

The Hungry Tide

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
416 Seiten
2005
The Borough Press (Verlag)
978-0-00-714178-4 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
Fom 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.
A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author
'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer… I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling to go so far, so fast' The Times


January 2001: A small ship, led by wealthy Scotsman Daniel Hamilton, arrives in the Sundarbans, a vast archipelago of islands in the mythical river Ganges, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea.


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 Hamilton’s point of view, it is only a little less barren than a desert.


The eccentric Scotsman and the scientists on board the ship disembark to study this little-known environment, and to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. Their goal? To create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans.

The author was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and northern India. Educated in India and Britain, he now lives in New York.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.5.2005
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 300 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-00-714178-5 / 0007141785
ISBN-13 978-0-00-714178-4 / 9780007141784
Zustand Neuware
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