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A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author
'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer… I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling to go so far, so fast' The Times
January 2001: A small ship, led by wealthy Scotsman Daniel Hamilton, arrives in the Sundarbans, a vast archipelago of islands in the mythical river Ganges, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea.
In the Sundarbans the tides reach more than 100 miles inland, and every day thousands of hectares of forest disappear only to re-emerge hours later. Dense as the mangrove forests are, from Hamilton’s point of view, it is only a little less barren than a desert.
The eccentric Scotsman and the scientists on board the ship disembark to study this little-known environment, and to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society. Their goal? To create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans.
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghoshwas born in Calcutta, and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka; he studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. He is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction includingThe Shadow Lines,The Glass Palace,The Hungry Tide,the Ibis Trilogy (comprising the novels Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire),Gun Island, The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse, Jungle Nama and The Living Mountain. Amitav Ghosh's work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He has been awarded and felicitated across the world.In 2019Foreign Policymagazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the past decade. The same year, the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, was conferred on him: he was the first English-language writer to receive it.In 2024, he was awarded theprestigious Erasmus Prize for his writings on the planetary crisis andclimate change.
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