Amitav Ghosh's new and unlikely fan

Novelist Amitav Ghosh's latest book has got a new reader in the form of my mother.

A Pre-University course holder with English Literature as major (in the early 1960s), my mom's literature knowledge died a natural death after work (TNEB) and family duties took primacy. Ghosh's latest 'Hungry Tide' has revived that interest in her.

I too am currently reading this book. And am very impressed with the way Ghosh describes small things we feel and go through in our daily life. More than pictures, words, sometimes, can have a magical effect on you. Literature at its very best, Ghosh's book 'The Hungry Tide' certainly is.