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The hungry tide: PB

An American marine biologist travels to India in search of a rare dolphin and meets a Delhi businessman in the remote area in search of his dead uncle's diary.

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  • "Hungry tide"
  • "Hungry tide"@it
  • "Hungry tide"@pl

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  • "Piya is a young Bengali cetologist brought up in the US. She arrives in the Sundarbans, the islands where the Ganges merges into the Bay of Bengal, to conduct an ecological survey on dolphins. Having been schooled in the US, Piya is fully westernized and does not know any Bengali. A drowning accident leads her to become reliant on a boatman as guide and protector in the violent Sundarbans. She also meets Kanai, a young Bengali professional man visiting the area on a family matter. Between them, the three weave an intriguing tale of history, folklore, ecology, migration, love and grief."
  • "An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea; tides which reach more than 160 kilometres inland causing thousands of hectares of forest to disappear, only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here; the place teems with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers. This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. And it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society of all races and religions and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment, and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society."
  • "Kanai, homme d'affaires sophistiqué, originaire de Calcutta, fait la connaissance de Piya, une cétologue américaine d'origine indienne, dans l'archipel des Sundarbans. Cette dernière, avec l'aide du pêcheur Fokir, explore la faune et la flore locale à la recherche d'une espèce unique de dauphin d'eau douce."
  • "An American marine biologist travels to India in search of a rare dolphin and meets a Delhi businessman in the remote area in search of his dead uncle's diary."@en
  • "Eine Reise voller Unwägbarkeiten in eine der gefährlichsten und gefährdetsten Regionen der Erde Die Sundarbans in der Bucht von Bengalen - der gigantische Archipel wird nur geboren, wenn das Wasser fällt: ein unbesiedelbares Land der Ebbe, zusammengehalten von den graugrünen Wurzeln der Mangroven, beherrscht von Bengalischen Königstigern. Schon seit Jahrzehnten setzen sich westliche Tierschutzorganisationen für den Erhalt der gefährlichen Raubkatzen ein und haben deshalb in den Sundarbans das "Projekt Tiger" ins Leben gerufen. Auf Kosten der Menschen - so sehen das zumindest die Bewohner der Inselwelt, die jährlich rund hundert von Tigern gerissene Opfer zu beklagen haben. Für sie ist jeder, der eine Großkatze erlegt, ein Held. Die amerikanische Meeresbiologin Piya ist in diesen gefährlichen Archipel gekommen, um Delfine zu erforschen. Der Fischer Fokir beeindruckt sie tief durch sein Gespür für das Wasser, denn er kann sie zu den nur schwer auffindbaren Delfingründen rudern. Während er seine Krebsnetze auswirft, beobachtet sie die stahlgrauen Tiere - und dabei finden die beiden zueinander, ohne Worte, denn sie sprechen keine gemeinsame Sprache."
  • "Man-eating tigers, river dolphins, crocodiles, mangrove forests, lunar rainbows, and the great cosmic metronome of the sweeping tides that inundate the Sundarbans, a vast archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, these are the marvels Ghosh orchestrates in this entrancing tale about the conflict between wildness and civilization, thus following his internationally acclaimed historical saga, The Glass Palace (2001), with another triumph of gorgeous writing, intelligent romance, and keen philosophical inquiries. His characters are just as alluring as the setting, and the chemistry among them is just as complex and powerful as the natural forces they confront. Piya Roy, a self-possessed cetologist born in India but raised in America, is searching for an increasingly rare river dolphin, and she finds the ideal assistant in fisherman Fokir. Kanai, an urbane translator from Kolkata, is visiting his formidable aunt, who gives him his late uncle's harrowing account of a violent confrontation between government officials and refugees who settled in a wildlife preserve. Through his characters' very different mind-sets, Ghosh posits urgent questions about humankind's place in nature in an atmospheric and suspenseful drama of love and survival that has particular resonance in the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami."
  • "Off the eastern coast of Inda lies an extraordinary cluster of islands known as the Sundarbans. It is a raw but a beautiful sea--a place of man-eating tigers, river dolphins, huge crocodiles and devistating tides that sweep across the terrain without remorse. In this exotic land, marine biologist Piya, fisherman Fokir and translator Kanai meet. As they travel deep into the remote archipelago, they experience a territory at risk not only from natural disaster, but also from human foolishness and volatile politics."
  • ""Off the eastern coast of India lies an extraordinary cluster of islands known as the Sundarbans. It is a raw but beautiful area-- a place of man-eating tigers, river dolphins, huge crocodiles and devastating tides that sweep across the terrain without remorse. In this exotic land, marine biologist Piya, fisherman Fokir and translator Kanai meet. As they travel deep into the remote archipelago, they experience a territory at risk not only from natural disaster, but also from human foolishness and volatile politics"--Container."@en
  • "From the author of the international bestseller The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide is a novel of adventure and romance set in the exotic Sundarbans -- treacherous islands in the Bay of Bengal where isolated inhabitants live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. A headstrong young American arrives in this lush landscape to study a rare species of 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."@en
  • "The arrival of marine biologist, Piya Roy, and urbane businessman, Kanai Dutt, upsets the balance in the small community in the Sundarbans."
  • "Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life here is precarious, ruled by the unforgiving tides and the constant threat of attacks by Bengal tigers. Into this place of vengeful beauty come two seekers from different worlds, whose lives collide with tragic consequences. The settlers of the remote Sundarbans believe that anyone without a pure heart who ventures into the watery island labyrinth will never return. With the arrival of two outsiders from the modern world, the delicate balance of small community life uneasily shifts. Piya Roy is a marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare dolphin. Kanai Dutt is an urbane Delhi businessman, here to retrieve the journal of his uncle, who died mysteriously in a local political uprising. When Piya hires an illiterate but proud local fisherman to guide her through the crocodile-infested backwaters, Kanai becomes her translator. From this moment, the tide begins to turn. A contemporary story of adventure and romance, identity and history, The Hungry Tide travels deep into one of the most fascinating regions on earth, where the treacherous forces of nature and human folly threaten to destroy a way of life."@en
  • "Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life here is precarious, ruled by the unforgiving tides and the constant threat of attacks by Bengal tigers. Into this place of vengeful beauty come two seekers from different worlds, whose lives collide with tragic consequences. The settlers of the remote Sundarbans believe that anyone without a pure heart who ventures into the watery island labyrinth will never return. With the arrival of two outsiders from the modern world, the delicate balance of small community life uneasily shifts. Piya Roy is a marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare dolphin. Kanai Dutt is an urbane Delhi businessman, here to retrieve the journal of his uncle, who died mysteriously in a local political uprising. When Piya hires an illiterate but proud local fisherman to guide her through the crocodile-infested backwaters, Kanai becomes her translator. From this moment, the tide begins to turn. A contemporary story of adventure and romance, identity and history, The Hungry Tide travels deep into one of the most fascinating regions on earth, where the treacherous forces of nature and human folly threaten to destroy a way of life."
  • "Novel, based on the people and environment of Sunderbans, India and Bangladesh."

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Love stories"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Powieść indyjska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Lačna plima"@sl
  • "La Marea hambrienta"
  • "ʼErats ha-gʻeot ṿe-ha-śefel"
  • "Le pays des marées"
  • "The Hungry Tide ; Amitav Ghosh"
  • "The Hungry tide"
  • "Bhāṭira deśa"
  • "The hungry tide: PB"@en
  • "Hunger der Gezeiten Roman"
  • "The hungry tide : [a novel]"
  • "Tidevandslandet"@da
  • "The hungry tide"
  • "The hungry tide"@en
  • "Gladna plima"
  • "Het hongerig getij"
  • "THE HUNGRY TIDE"
  • "Hladový příliv"
  • "Żarłoczny przypływ"
  • "Żarłoczny przypływ"@pl
  • "The hungry tide a novel"@en
  • "Hunger der Gezeiten : Roman"
  • "The hungry tide [electronic resource]"
  • "Il paese delle maree"
  • "Il paese delle maree"@it
  • "La marea hambrienta"@es

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