Resumen
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 cetologist named Piyali Roy is studying the Irrawaddy dolphin in the Sundarbans, the paradisal cluster of islands in southwestern Bangladesh. While there, she meets a man named Kanai Dutt, whose immersion in the diaries of his uncle Nirmal, a revolutionary intellectual who is now dead, provides a history of the Sundarbans, which has often revolved around the poverty of its people and the wondrous variety of its animal life. Piyali also encounters a fisherman named Fokir, who serves as her guide to the dolphins she is looking for. Ghoshs novel is a follow-up to his enormously successful THE GLASS PALACE, published in 2001.<
