tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post6900115793519069511..comments2024-03-05T15:22:45.423+05:30Comments on The Summing Up: The Hungry TideSandhya Iyerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14447589463166718231noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-5828618063682211972017-06-23T12:09:50.769+05:302017-06-23T12:09:50.769+05:30Hi Sandhya , was planning to buy this book for 100...Hi Sandhya , was planning to buy this book for 100 rupees but decided to not go for it after your sentence in parenthesis ( that narrative bites you to death ) every time I go to the shop I browse it and search for some good paragraph which holds my interest ..but it doesn't even after umpteen number of browsing sessions .. thank you for saving my money .. I will re read sea of poppies and essay collection by Amitava in lieu of this low tide drhadi.masoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039313238318412560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-35996290735306724242011-05-05T08:58:52.455+05:302011-05-05T08:58:52.455+05:30I loved the book, I read it couple of years back, ...I loved the book, I read it couple of years back, I remember particularly falling in love with Piyali's character (free spirited) person. I liked what you said here "Ghosh brings in the debate about human settlements in forested lands through Piya and Kanai"..very true..<br />As usual, good review.Nayeemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16931160856547314018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-11191491708149764662010-09-02T13:08:37.619+05:302010-09-02T13:08:37.619+05:30huhu<a href="www.baidu.com" rel="nofollow">huhu</a>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05535541891483423088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-39767499001250417342007-09-17T07:15:00.000+05:302007-09-17T07:15:00.000+05:30Superb review sandy, and (to answer janaki's quest...Superb review sandy, and (to answer janaki's question), I have quite a weakness for this book:<BR/><BR/>http://qalandari.blogspot.com/2005/09/tide-country.html<BR/><BR/>To the extent one can posit a "split" between anthropologist and novel (the lines are especially blurred where Ghosh is concerned, as "In An Antique Land" attests) I would probably agree that "The Hungry Tide" falls on the anthropologist side...Qalandarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822440676942755461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-24783731675851452612007-09-14T17:49:00.000+05:302007-09-14T17:49:00.000+05:30Sash/Janaki: Quite evidently, this novel slips int...Sash/Janaki: Quite evidently, this novel slips into travelogue mode several times in the course of its narrative (which actually bored me quite a bit). The fiction has taken a backseat, no doubt about it. But having said that, I found the Kanai-Fokir-Piya triangle extremely interesting. I felt both Kanai's and Piya's characters were superbly etched, so certainly, Ghosh's talent for fiction is unmistakable.<BR/>But as a whole, Ghosh's approach to the book is more as an anthropologist than a fiction writer, which means there's really not much of a story here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-62272806531822201832007-09-14T17:22:00.000+05:302007-09-14T17:22:00.000+05:30Amitav Ghosh is easily on top of my list of favori...Amitav Ghosh is easily on top of my list of favorite authors ... His Glass Palace was epic in proportions, and Hungry Tide dnt match it in scale.<BR/><BR/>But i loved hungry tide, because it was completely yin in nature. Whether it is Piya and aunt, or the tides or legends .... it appealed to the feminine in you. I will be interested in knowing whether men have enjoyed this book as much as most women i know have.<BR/><BR/>As sashwati says and as you sandhya pointed out, the imagery and folklore make it a travelogue, like Legends of Pensem and Pico Iyer's Lady and the Monk. But Ghosh is a better fiction writer than Iyer (and Iyer is a better travel writer !!).<BR/><BR/>But Ghosh is at home in the East. Whether it is Burma in Glass Place, or Cambodia in "Dancing in Cambodia...." Reading him evokes the imagery of a National Geographic video.<BR/><BR/>But Hungry Tide exhausts you. It will be a while before you pick another heavy book. You need a light one now ! like Lollipop shoes !janakihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10217228789121184120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956626159470439381.post-7232328255975873302007-09-14T14:48:00.000+05:302007-09-14T14:48:00.000+05:30The Hungry Tide is a poignant story of the writer’...The Hungry Tide is a poignant story of the writer’s personal love for the place. The book would have been ideal as a travelogue of a kind but is quite a dampener as a fictionalized book of sorts. The fertile soil of the land is a metaphor of the passion that has overawed the author. But this fails to turn into a fairly gripping novel, Ghosh is known for. <BR/><BR/>Even as the three central characters- Piya, Kanai and Fokir are representatives of disparate eras and ideologies, their coming together expectedly would have been the high point of the tale. However Ghosh is too carried away by the mystical allure of the Sundarbans and lets his characters drift away in the clamourous ‘swish and swirl’ of the gorging Ganges.<BR/><BR/>Its much like, Ghosh deliberately holds a mélange of words as a flimsy curtain to the real undercurrents of the tale that would have otherwise been a delight to unearth.Sashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11867035965738301501noreply@blogger.com