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Review: Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide"
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MELISSA BLOCK
All Things Considered (NPR)
05-30-2005
Review: Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide"
Host: MELISSA BLOCK
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block.
The Sunderbans is a region of thousands of islands in the Ganges delta on the India-Bangladesh border. It serves as the setting for a new novel by Amitav Ghosh. Alan Cheuse has a review of "The Hungry Tide."
ALAN CHEUSE reporting:
The Sunderbans are like our Florida Everglades but much, much larger, `the trailing threads of India's fabric,' as one character in this ...
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