Vodafone Crossword Fiction Award Winner 2004
About the Book: The Hungry Tide
From the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry
Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of
islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges
first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great that the
earth would have been destroyed if it had not been for the god Shiva, who tamed
the torrent by catching it in his dreadlocks. It is only when the Ganges
approaches the Bay of Bengal that it frees