The Hungry Tide cover art

The Hungry Tide

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

The Hungry Tide

By: Amitav Ghosh
Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

About this listen

 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.

©2023 Amitav Ghosh (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Epic Family Life Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction
All stars
Most relevant
l have now listen to 5 of Amitiavs books and have been total absorbed in the relationships, the weaving of historical happenings through time and lands. The disscriptive narrative of places adverts of people and their relationships have made me feel as if l was there. l adored this book and the triology based around the opium trade.

beautiful, brutal, well written and absorbing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.