The Hungry Tide
16 hrs. 3 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Amitav Ghosh
Author
Amitav Ghosh
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Narrator
Maria Orlova
Description
Mangrove forests don’t welcome strangers. A spellbinding novel about a meeting between a person and nature.
In eastern India, in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, Shundarbans sprawls—a labyrinth of countless islands where the tides lay down their own rules, erasing and redrawing the shoreline at any moment, and from the mangrove thickets a tiger can burst forth.
In this mesmerizing yet treacherous jungle world arrives Pia Roy, a marine biologist, a young American woman of Indian origin. It is here that an endangered species of river dolphins lives—the subject of her study. Pia doesn’t speak Bengali and knows nothing about this land, but precisely here she will have to confront two people who will overturn her understanding of the world: the illiterate fisherman Fokir, who knows the river and its inhabitants as no scientist can, and Kanai, a translator from the capital—intelligent, self-assured, and utterly out of place in these regions.
“The Hungry Tide” is a story of a journey into exotic wilderness that gradually turns into a meditation on the fragility of human existence in the face of nature. It is a story of the collision of science and intuition, of reason and tradition, of the city and the untamed land. Here, amid nature’s majesty and dominion, the human being is brought face to face with their own smallness—and truly learns who they are.
Listen to a masterful performance by Grigory Perel and Maria Orlova: a novel about the tenuous boundary between man and the elements, about the clash between theory and practice, and about the untamed nature of a lost archipelago.
Press on the book:
“Ghosh holds the narrative in an ideal balance between the world of words and the world of silence. Like the elusive appearances of river dolphins, the novel’s design sometimes seems whimsical and unpredictable, but the patient attention of the reader is rewarded,” — The Guardian
“Amitav Ghosh is a writer so compelling and captivating... a truly serious author, confident in his human and historical insights and in his ability to convey them to the reader. I can’t imagine another contemporary writer with whom it would be as thrilling to travel so far and so swiftly,” — The Times
In eastern India, in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, Shundarbans sprawls—a labyrinth of countless islands where the tides lay down their own rules, erasing and redrawing the shoreline at any moment, and from the mangrove thickets a tiger can burst forth.
In this mesmerizing yet treacherous jungle world arrives Pia Roy, a marine biologist, a young American woman of Indian origin. It is here that an endangered species of river dolphins lives—the subject of her study. Pia doesn’t speak Bengali and knows nothing about this land, but precisely here she will have to confront two people who will overturn her understanding of the world: the illiterate fisherman Fokir, who knows the river and its inhabitants as no scientist can, and Kanai, a translator from the capital—intelligent, self-assured, and utterly out of place in these regions.
“The Hungry Tide” is a story of a journey into exotic wilderness that gradually turns into a meditation on the fragility of human existence in the face of nature. It is a story of the collision of science and intuition, of reason and tradition, of the city and the untamed land. Here, amid nature’s majesty and dominion, the human being is brought face to face with their own smallness—and truly learns who they are.
Listen to a masterful performance by Grigory Perel and Maria Orlova: a novel about the tenuous boundary between man and the elements, about the clash between theory and practice, and about the untamed nature of a lost archipelago.
Press on the book:
“Ghosh holds the narrative in an ideal balance between the world of words and the world of silence. Like the elusive appearances of river dolphins, the novel’s design sometimes seems whimsical and unpredictable, but the patient attention of the reader is rewarded,” — The Guardian
“Amitav Ghosh is a writer so compelling and captivating... a truly serious author, confident in his human and historical insights and in his ability to convey them to the reader. I can’t imagine another contemporary writer with whom it would be as thrilling to travel so far and so swiftly,” — The Times
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