The Hungry Tide

<p><strong>A sprawling stormy magnificent novel of India untamed. --<em>O: The Oprah Magazine</em></strong></p><p><strong>A certifiable page-turner.--<em>Boston Globe</em></strong></p><p><strong>From Amitav Ghosh award-winning and international bestselling author of the Ibis Trilogy comes a contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love identity and history set in one of the most fascinating regions of the world.</strong></p><p><strong>A <em>Washington Post</em> <em>Book World </em> <em>San Francisco Chronicle </em> and <em>Chicago Tribune</em> Best Book of the Year </strong><em>- </em><strong>A Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction</strong></p><p>Life is harsh in the Sundarbans the treacherous islands in the Bay of Bengal where isolated inhabitants live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy is a young marine biologist of Indian descent but stubbornly American who has come here in search of a rare endangered river dolphin. She enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator and soon their fates on the waterways will be determined by the forces of nature and human folly.</p>