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“A sprawling, stormy, magnificent novel of India untamed.” —O: The Oprah Magazine
“A certifiable page-turner.”–Boston Globe
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.
A Washington Post Book World, San Francisco Chronicle, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year – A Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize for Fiction
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Published: 06/01/2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780618711666
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 0.89″ H x 8.04″ L x 5.28″ W
About the Author
Ghosh, Amitav: – Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. Ghosh has won France’s Prix Medici Etranger, India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.
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