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The Hungry Tide

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547525206
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Hungry Tide written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three lives collide on an island off India: “An engrossing tale of caste and culture… introduces readers to a little-known world.”—Entertainment Weekly Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. At any moment, tidal floods may rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people collide. Piya Roy is a marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. Her journey begins with a disaster when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir. Although they have no language between them, they are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. As the three launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll as powerful as the ravaging tide. From the national bestselling author of Gun Island, The Hungry Tide was a winner of the Crossword Book Prize and a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize. “A great swirl of political, social, and environmental issues, presented through a story that’s full of romance, suspense, and poetry.”—The Washington Post “Masterful.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Hungry Tide

Author : Val Wood
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446486257
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Hungry Tide written by Val Wood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sea claims the land, can she claim the love she deserves? In the old fishing town of Hull, Sarah Foster's parents have been fighting a constant battle with poverty, disease and crime. When her father Will, a whaling man, is involved in a terrible accident at sea, their lives became even harder. But Will's good deeds of the past pay off as John Rayner decides to rescue the Fosters. John provides them with work and a house on the estate owned by his wealthy family. It is at this new home on the crumbling coastline of Holderness that Sarah is born - and grows into a bright and beautiful girl, and a great source of strength to those around her. As John grows closer to Sarah, he becomes increasingly aware of his love for her. But could these two very different people ever make their love story truly work? If you enjoy books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.

Gun Island

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719411
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Gun Island written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, Chicago Review of Books and Amazon From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen’s eyes to the realities of growing up in today’s world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey that will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him. Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.

Sea of Poppies

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429930810
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Sea of Poppies written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh

Author : Gaurav Desai
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603293981
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh written by Gaurav Desai and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts, Amitav Ghosh grew up in India and trained as an anthropologist. His works have been translated into over thirty languages. They cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel, incorporating ethnohistory and travelogue and even recuperating dead languages. His subjects include climate change, postcolonial identities, translocation, migration, oceanic spaces, and the human interface with the environment. Part 1 of this volume discusses editions of Ghosh's works and the scholarship on Ghosh. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," present ideas for teaching his works through considerations of postcolonial feminism, historicity in the novels, environmentalism, language, sociopolitical conflict, genre, intersectional reading, and the ethics of colonized subjecthood. Guidance for teaching Ghosh in different contexts, such as general education, world literature, or single-author classes, is provided.

Dancing In Cambodia & Other Essays

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143068725
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Dancing In Cambodia & Other Essays written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307819647
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book At Play in the Fields of the Lord written by Peter Matthiessen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller—adapted into a movie starring John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Tom Waits. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide.

The Shadow Lines

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143066560
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Shadow Lines written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

Incendiary Circumstances

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547527136
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Incendiary Circumstances written by Amitav Ghosh and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh’s arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan; interviewed Pol Pot’s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. “Ghosh is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . . Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.” —Sunday Oregonian

The Construction of Place in Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide"

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Author : Marnie Hensler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346267423
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Place in Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" written by Marnie Hensler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Asia, University of Freiburg (English Department), course: On the Beach: Narrating Littoral Space in Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper claims that the space of the tide country, as perceived by the protagonists in The Hungry Tide, is constructed through two major embedded narratives. The first narrative is the legend of the goddess Bon Bibi. Passed down orally from generation to generation, the rhythmic legend sediments itself in the minds of the tide country people, defines how they see their homeland and thus actively, and repeatedly, constructs and reconstructs the space of the tide country. The second narrative is Nirmal’s recollection of his repeated adventures to Morichjhapi. Unlike the legend of Bon Bibi, his adventures are transmitted in writing through his notebook. Accessible to Kanai and the reader only, its content shapes and constructs how both character and reader perceive and construct the space of the historical island. However, it also works the other way around. The place of the tide country also influences the narratives that evolve around it. The Bon Bibi legend is as fluid as the tide country, being (re)interpreted from generation to generation. Nirmal’s notebook as well reflects the main characteristics of the tide country as it travels on water (on the Megha) and ultimately also disappears in water (like the tide country eventually will as well). In this paper, a close textual analysis of both embedded narratives reveals how they manage to (re)construct the space of the tide country for both characters and readers (i.e. which narrative strategies are used etc.) and what distinct topographical characteristics of the tide country can be found within them. In sum, this paper claims that narratives have the ability to construct the space(s) we live in. Cultural geography examines how places and identities are produced. It looks into how people of a certain culture and place perceive their “homeland” or, inverse, how they construct it with the help of cultural artefacts. Cultural artefacts like folktales or songs can contribute to the construction of space since they describe and determine how people view and perceive the places around them. Whatever cultural artefacts people produce give insight into how they see their space. Narratives as cultural artefacts, for example, can thus show us how spaces are perceived by those who “tell” and “consume” them.

We Are Unprepared

Author : Meg Little Reilly
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1460395883
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book We Are Unprepared written by Meg Little Reilly and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. WE ARE UNPREPARED is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human

The Glass Palace

Author : Ghosh
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780670082209
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Palace written by Ghosh and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2008 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glass Palace Begins With The Shattering Of The Kingdom Of Burma, And Tells The Story Of A People, A Fortune, And A Family And Its Fate. It Traces The Life Of Rajkumar, A Poor Indian Boy, Who Is Lifted On The Tides Of Political And Social Turmoil To Build An Empire In The Burmese Teak Forest. When British Soldiers Force The Royal Family Out Of The Glass Palace, During The Invasion Of 1885, He Falls In Love With Dolly, An Attendant At The Palace. Years Later, Unable To Forget Her, Rajkumar Goes In Search Of His Love. Through This Brilliant And Impassioned Story Of Love And War, Amitav Ghosh Presents A Ruthless Appraisal Of The Horrors Of Colonialism And Capitalist Exploitation. Click Here To Visit The Amitav Ghosh Website

Flood of Fire

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944285
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Flood of Fire written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong. Along the way, many characters from the Ibis Trilogy come aboard, including Zachary Reid, a young American speculator in opium futures, and Shireen, the widow of an opium merchant whose mysterious death in China has compelled her to seek out his lost son. The Hind docks in Hong Kong just as war breaks out and opium "pours into the market like monsoon flood." From Bombay to Calcutta, from naval engagements to the decks of a hospital ship, among embezzlement, profiteering, and espionage, Amitav Ghosh charts a breathless course through the culminating moment of the British opium trade and vexed colonial history. With all the verve of the first two novels in the trilogy, Flood of Fire completes Ghosh's unprecedented reenvisioning of the nineteenth-century war on drugs. With remarkable historic vision and a vibrant cast of characters, Ghosh brings the Opium Wars to bear on the contemporary moment with the storytelling that has charmed readers around the world.

Cinnamon Gardens

Author : Shyam Selvadurai
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551997185
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Cinnamon Gardens written by Shyam Selvadurai and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1920s’ Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran’s powerful father, and threatens all on which Balendran has built his present life. Sensual, perceptive, and wise, Cinnamon Gardens is a novel of exceptional achievement—an exquisite tapestry of lives.

Animalities

Author : Michael Lundblad
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474423965
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Animalities written by Michael Lundblad and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like, how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do aanimalities animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of aMichael Field, or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work abeyond the human in future interdisciplinary scholarship.Key Features10 provocative case studies focused on representations and discourses of animals and animality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and film in EnglishNew work from both internationally renowned and emerging figures in the burgeoning fields of animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism, suggesting innovative and significant new directions to exploreBroad introduction to the kinds of questions scholars in the humanities have considered in relation to animals and animality

The Circle of Reason

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547525001
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Circle of Reason written by Amitav Ghosh and published by HMH. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this “utterly involving” novel (The Sunday Times). When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Alu—potato—for the size and shape of his extraordinary head. His uncle Balaram, the local schoolmaster and phrenology enthusiast, sends Alu to apprentice as a weaver, and the boy soon surpasses the skill of his master. But when a tragic bombing leaves Alu suspected of terrorism, he flees across India to Bombay and the Arabian Sea, followed all the way by the dogged policeman—and avid ornithologist—Jyoti Das. From East Bengal to the Persian Gulf and North Africa, Amitav Ghosh’s wild and extraordinary novel “follows in the footsteps of magical realists like Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie” (The New York Times Book Review). “A novelist of dazzling ingenuity.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A Scheherezade effortlessly spinning tales within tales, the possessor of a strong narrative voice quite like no other.” —Newsday “Ghosh’s writing soars, producing electric images.” —The Baltimore Sun “A wonderful mix of magic and horror, wit and curiosity . . . Ghosh has really woven a fresh world for us to visit.” —Providence Sunday Journal

Children of the Tide

Author : Valerie Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780552144766
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Children of the Tide written by Valerie Wood and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the late 1850s and a tired woman holding a baby walks from Hull to one of the big houses in Anlaby, the home of the wealthy Rayners. She knocks at the door, and shoves the baby at young James Rayner. It is a Rayner child, the father was 'young Mr Rayner', and the mother is dead. Then she vanishes. The respectable shipping family of Hull are shattered. They all assume it is James's, not Gilbert's who is on the verge of an excellent marriage. No one wants to take responsibility for the baby and it is about to be put into a dreadful Dickensian type orphanage when Sammi, James's girl cousin, decides to take the baby back to her parents' home on the Holderness coast. This signals the beginning of a family furore. James is banished to London and disaster begins to beset the three branches of the Rayners, all descended from the couple in The Hungry Tide. A huge, many-faceted story of the three related families and the triumphs and tragedies of their lives as the whaling industry of Hull begins to decline, and the farmlands and homes continue to slip into the sea.