[Soasiastudents] Amitav Ghosh on Tuesday

[Keith Snodgrass]

Here is a late addition for the South Asia calendar this week:

AMITAV GHOSH
Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m.
Elliott Bay Books

WeÕre delighted to welcome back internationally-renowned novelist and essayist Amitav Ghosh. His new 
novel, The Hungry Tide (Houghton Mifflin), already much-praised in his homeland of India, occasions this 
visit, along with the long-awaited reissue of his first two novels, The Circle of Reason and The Shadow 
Lines (both Mariner).
"One doesnÕt so much read GhoshÕs masterful fifth novel as inhabit his characters and the alluring if 
treacherous Sundarban archipelago, Ôthe ragged fringe of [IndiaÕs] sari,Õ where it is set. The authorÕs 
nuanced descriptions of the moods and microenvironments of the islands serve as a lush backdrop for an 
intricate narrative that moves fluidly between past and present . . . Ghosh . . . is uninterested in setting up 
simple good/evil binaries and instead weds the issues of love, language and land to the unfolding 
relationships among Piyali, Fokir, and Kanai. The philosophical and moral implications of their actions 
remain simmering just below the surface. The climactic ending, in which a cyclone threatens the 
inhabitants of the Sundarbans underscore [protagonist] NirmalÕs observation that Ônothing escapes the 
maw of the tides.Õ" - Publishers Weekly.
Keith Snodgrass      
Associate Director  & Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center, Jackson School                     
Box 353650, University of Washington                  
Seattle, WA 98195    
Phone: (206)543-4800; Fax(206)685-0668                                    
                     South Asia Center on the Web:
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