by Amitav Ghosh · Booket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788496580084
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«La marea hambrienta» is the contemporary novel by Amitav Ghosh, published by Booket in paperback format (496 pages, in Spanish).
Kanai travels to the Sundarbans islands to read a diary his aunt found: the writing of her late husband hides a mystery he must solve. His path crosses with Piya, a cetologist studying freshwater dolphins, and with Fokir, a local fisherman. The tide and the secrets of the delta unite their destinies.
The edition opens Booket's Bestseller collection. It is a translation of The Hungry Tide, originally published in 2004. Winner of the Crossword Book Award in 2004 and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in 2006.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in India, family ties and natural landscapes.
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.
