by Amitav Ghosh · Neri Pozza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788854500303
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«Il paese delle maree» is Amitav Ghosh's adventure novel, published by Neri Pozza in paperback (460 pages, in Italian).
The plot follows Piya, a Bengali marine biologist raised in the US, who travels to the Sundarbans to study its waters. There she meets an interpreter from Delhi and a fisherman who knows the tides. The novel contrasts modernity and tradition in a wild environment where land and sea blur.
Work originally published in English as The Hungry Tide. This 2005 edition, translated by Anna Nadotti, belongs to the Le tavole d'oro collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and reading groups interested in India and the clash between tradition and modernity.
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.
