by Amitav Ghosh · ISBN 9783896672032
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«Hunger der Gezeiten» is Amitav Ghosh's novel, published by Karl Blessing Verlag in hardcover (459 pages, in German).
Marine biologist Piya travels to the Sundarbans, a mangrove archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, to study dolphins. There she meets Fokir, a local fisherman with a special gift for water; between them a wordless bond arises. The story addresses tiger conservation, the lives of island communities and the threat to the ecosystem.
Translation from English by Barbara Heller. First German edition published by Karl Blessing Verlag in Munich in 2004.
For readers of contemporary fiction with an interest in nature, local communities and encounters between cultures.
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
