Review of The Hungry Tide.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: World Literature Today | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Review of The Hungry Tide, by Amitav Ghosh (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) First aired on NPR May 30, 2005

THE SUNDARBANS, a region of thousands of islands in the Ganges delta on the India-Bangladesh border, serve as the setting for Amitav Ghosh's new novel, The Hungry Tide. The Sundarbans, like our Florida Everglades but much, much larger. "The trailing threads of India's fabric," as one character in this hypnotic novel writes about the region; "the ragged fringe of her sari," an evanescent land- and waterscape where the Ganges flows deep and far out into the Bay of Bengal and ...

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