Yet as she gets to know Fokir and the novel progresses, she begins to learn about the human cost of conservation. Piya is intelligent but unambitious and begins the novel with a deep enthusiasm for animals and nature conservation. When she meets the fisherman Fokir, she is able to nonverbally communicate with him to the extent that they form a meaningful relationship. Piya is brave and confident, unfazed by the prospect of traveling to a relatively remote area where she does not speak the language. Though she was born in Kolkata, Piya grew up in the United States and never learned Bengali, her parents’ native language.

Piya is a marine biologist who travels to the Sundarbans in India to survey the local river dolphins. Though he believes that he’s a “connoisseur” of women, Kanai repeatedly tries and fails to win Piya’s affection. Kanai is confident to the point of arrogance and tends to be self-centered, and initially views the Sundarbans as unimportant and inferior to his urban home. He travels to the Sundarbans, which he visited once as a child, to read the notebook his uncle left him after his death.

As his profession suggests, Kanai deeply values language, using it as a tool to empower himself to navigate the world and to learn about others. Hailed as 'a novelist of dazzling ingenuity' by the San Francisco Chronicle, Ghosh delivers a rich and evocative story of profound truths staged against an unforgettable backdrop.A well-off interpreter and translator who owns his own business, Kanai is a native of New Delhi. 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. In this exotic land, marine biologist Piya, fisherman Fokir, and translator Kanai meet. 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. Off the eastern coast of India lies an extraordinary cluster of islands known as the Sundarbans. Naipaul, The Hungry Tide is an atmospheric tale set in a world of wondrous sights.and terrible danger. Favorably compared to the masterworks of Joseph Conrad and V.S. Internationally best-selling author Amitav Ghosh, winner of the Pushcart Prize and numerous other prestigious accolades, pens a sweeping novel full of romantic adventure.

The hungry tide by amitav ghosh