Amitav Ghosh’s 2004 novel The Hungry Tidecontemplates the complex relationship between humans and the natural world through a series of parallel, intersecting narratives. The novel centers around the research project of Piya, an Indian-American cetologist, who meets Kanai, a translator from New Delhi, and Fokir, a village crab fisherman from the tide country of the Sundarbans in Southern Bengal in which the novel is set. The Sundarbans serve as an ecologically rich backdrop for Ghosh to illustrate the possibility and the way in which humans can reestablish a healthy relationship with nature. Continue reading