![]() ![]() Raised in Seattle, she studies at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla. The main character, Piyali Roy, is a young marine biologist of Bengali-Indian descent but identifying as stubbornly American. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. For settlers here, life is precarious: attacks by deadly tigers are common, and the threat of eviction and consequent social unrest is ever present. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. It won the 2004 Hutch Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Set in the Sundarbans, it follows an unlikely trio who travel up river together to find the rare Irrawaddy dolphin. The Hungry Tide (2004) is the fourth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh. ![]()
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