1. Human Spirit in The Hungry Tide
For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... He wanted to establish a new society, a new kind of country. ... Yet it represents another world where it is impossible to tell who is who, and what their castes and religious beliefs are for them. ... Into the transformative sphere of the tide country, where life is lived on the margins of greater events, venture two individuals from the outside world. They are Piyali Roy (Piya), a Bengali-American cytologists from Seattle who cannot even speak ...
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- Approx Pages: 16
- Grade Level: Undergraduate