THE HUNGRY TIDE - by Amitav Ghosh - For Lila

Sep 20, 2026

Amitav Ghosh, born in 1956 in Calcutta and trained in social anthropology at Oxford, is profiled as a writer known for fiction, travel writing, and journalism. The Hungry Tide is presented as his acclaimed novel, previously selling strongly in Britain and being translated and sold widely abroad. The publication details situate the work with Penguin Canada and related international imprints, including copyright information and cataloging references. A contents overview lists two parts—“The Ebb: Bhata” and “The Flood: Jowar”—with an author’s note.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryStory & Novel

FormatPDF

Pages455

Reading Time11 h 41 min

AccessFree to download

Contents

Part One: The Ebb: Bhata

Part Two: The Flood: Jowar

Author's Note

PENGUIN CANADA THE HUNGRY TIDE AMITAV GHOSH was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his [Ph.D. in](Ph.D. in) social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for ﬁction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. His previous novel, The Glass Palace, sold more thana half-million copies in Britain. The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Ghosh has won France’s Prix Medici Etranger, India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He divides his time between New York and Calcutta, and is a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Other books by Amitav Ghosh THE GLASS PALACE THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME THE SHADOW LINES IN AN ANTIQUE LAND THE CIRCLE OF REASON Amitav Ghosh THE HUNGRY TIDE PENGUIN CANADA Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Canada Inc. ) Penguin Group (USA) Inc. , 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, Auckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Oﬃces: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Published in Penguin Canada paperback by Penguin Group (Canada), a division of Pearson Canada Inc. , 2005. Simultaneously published in the U.S.A. with Houghton Miﬄin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003. Originally published in 2004 in the [U.K. by](U.K. by) HarperCollins Publishers, 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W68JB. (WEB) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Copyright © Amitav Ghosh, 2004 Lines from Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin, Jr. Copyright © 1975, 1976, 1977 by A. Poulin, Jr. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Miﬄin Company. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. Publisher’s note: This book is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Book design by Melissa Lotfy Map by Jacques Chazaud Manufactured in Canada. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION Ghosh, Amitav The hungry tide / Amitav Ghosh. ISBN 0-14-301557-5 I. Title. PR9499 .3.G535H85 2005 823’.914 C2004-905402-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-301557-4 ISBN-10: 0-14-301557-5 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data available American Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data available Visit the Penguin Group (Canada) website [at](at www.penguin.ca)[ ](at www.penguin.ca)[www.penguin.ca](at www.penguin.ca) Special and corporate bulk purchase rates available; please see [www.penguin.ca/corporatesales](www.penguin.ca/corporatesales) or call 1-800-399-6858, ext. 477 or 47

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Who is Amitav Ghosh and what is he known for?

Amitav Ghosh is a writer celebrated for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, with an academic background in social anthropology from Oxford.

What is The Hungry Tide about in terms of its structure?

The book is organized into two main parts: Part One (“The Ebb: Bhata”) and Part Two (“The Flood: Jowar”), followed by an Author’s Note.

Who publishes The Hungry Tide and where?

The publication information lists Penguin Group imprints, including Penguin Group (Canada), along with international addresses for the Penguin organizations.

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