The Hungry Tide Free Audiobook Download by Amitav Ghosh

Firdous Bamji is an Indian actor, director and producer noted for his work in Hindi cinema. He has won numerous awards including the National Film Award for Best Actor - Special Mention (2002), National Film Award for Best Actor (2016) and Filmfare Awards South. His work includes roles in some of the most successful Hindi films of recent times such as Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Om Shanti Om, Paheli, A Wednesday, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Dostana. He speaks fluent English and Hindi

The Hungry Tide is a novel about two friends who are set on opposing paths by their family's historical tension. One becomes an adolescent revolutionary, while the other joins the British colonial army.

One of the most remarkable aspects of this novel is the division of the narrative into chapters. The reader is treated to a third-person, objective narration from an unknown perspective that follows the life of a tide, much like the narrator's own identity slips away throughout the story. The tide is an unnamed figure who moves from one horizon to another without any apparent purpose, until he arrives at his final destination.

In this, Amitav Ghosh's first novel, he tells the story of a third-generation Indian immigrant whose life is transformed by the Great Depression. ...

The Hungry Tide is a novel set in the coastal towns of India and Bangladesh that tells the story of two siblings, separated by geography but united by hunger.

Amitav Ghosh is the author of many novels, including the critically acclaimed Sea of Poppies. In The Hungry Tide, he creates a gripping tale which follows Mahbub Ali and his daughter Jahan Ara as they leave their starving homeland during British India's colonial rule to embark on an arduous journey that marks the beginning of a new life in England.