Amitav Ghosh

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).

«Una saga familiar, pero también una meditación sobre el sueño y la memoria, más intimista que la anterior novela de Ghosh, pero sutil, profunda y escrita con la misma maravillosa maestría» (Le Monde

Alu, huérfano desde los ocho años, vive en una aldea cercana a Calcuta con su tío Balaram; éste trabaja como maestro en la escuela del lugar, es un devoto de la frenología -que ejercita estudiando la enorme y peculiar cabeza de Alu-, apostol de la razon y fervoroso lector de La vida de Pasteur. Cuando Bhudeb Roy, el director y dueño de la escuela, la cierra para dedicarse a la politica, el incontenible Balaram funda la Escuela Pasteur de la Razon, desde la que intenta llevar el propgreso y la racionalidad a un mundo que parece ajeno a ellos.

Fom 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 itself and separates into thousands of wandering strands. The result is the Sundarbans, an immense stretch of mangrove forest, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea. It is this vast archipelago of islands that provides the setting for Amitav Ghosh''s new novel. 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 a human point of view it is only a little less barren than a desert. There is a terrible, vengeful beauty here, a place teeming with crocodiles, snakes, sharks and man-eating tigers.This is the only place on earth where man is more often prey than predator. And it is into this terrain that an eccentric, wealthy Scotsman named Daniel Hamilton tried to create a utopian society, of all races and religions, and conquer the might of the Sundarbans. In January 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast but little-known environment, and the scientists on board begin to trace the journeys of the descendants of this society.

El área de Conocimiento del Medio pretende dar los conocimientos, habilidades y actitudes que permitan a los alumnos comprender mejor la sociedad y el mundo de hoy, y para que puedan acceder a él. Educa en el sentido amplio de la palabra. Ademas de los conocimientos especificos de cada area, desarrolla otras habilidades personales y sociales: afectividad, creatividad, cooperacion, trabajo en grupo, etc. El libro del alumno consta de 15 Unidades que aparecen distribuidas en tres libros de 72 paginas el primer trimestre y 64 paginas el segundo y tercer trimestre, pensados para facilitar su manejo. Cada libro se corresponde con un trimestre y contiene 5 Unidades de trabajo.

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the "Ibis," whose destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, and whose purpose is to fight China''s vicious 19th-century Opium Wars. This adventure spans landscapes from the lush poppy fields of the Ganges to the exotic backstreets of Canton.

Las aguas sagradas del Ganges, la bahía de Bengala, el oceano Índico. Interminables campos de amapolas y sinuosos caminos de tierra, salpicados de villas y templos, el crisol humano y religioso de la bullente Calcuta... Todo esto y mucho mas constituye el escenario donde confl uye el polifacetico colectivo humano que conforma el universo de Mar de amapolas, una novela que nos adentra en el mundo colonial de Asia del siglo XIX, en el mismo momento que se fragua una guerra con China y se atisban grandes cambios para la Compañia de las Indias y el orden social establecido en la India.

El vell vaixell d'esclaus Ibis protagonitza aquesta saga èpica ambientada a l'Índia el 1838, just abans de la Guerra de l'Opi, una època de forta agitació colonial. Una tripulació heterogènia, forma

Lors d'un de ses séjours annuels en Inde, Deen, bientôt sexagénaire, accepte sans enthousiasme de s'intéresser à un personnage folklorique méconnu et de visiter un temple perdu dans la mangrove. Lui

The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake.In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. Piya Roy is a young marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. Her journey begins with a disaster, when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir. Although they have no language between them, Piya and Fokir are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. As the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll that is every bit as powerful as the ravaging tide.Already an international success, The Hungry Tide is a prophetic novel of remarkable insight, beauty, and humanity

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile! He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled. The picture of the tension between the Burmese, the Indian and the British, is excellent. Among the great range of characters are one of the court ladies, Miss Dolly, whom he marries: and the ...

The final book in the bestselling Ibis trilogy from the author of Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize shortlisted author Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his gen

A Mandalay, en 1885, alors que le royaume de Birmanie s'écroule et que le roi est emmené en exil par les Britanniques, Rajkumar, un orphelin indien de onze ans, prend sa décision : il sera riche et il retrouvera Dolly, la frêle fillette entrevue dans le Palais des Miroirs livré au pillage, et dont il est tombé irrémédiablement amoureux. Ainsi se nouent les premiers fils d'une prodigieuse saga où le sort des individus est inexorablement lié à celui de nations qui s'appellent la Birmanie, la Malaisie et l'Inde. Rajkumar l'indomptable, Dolly, mais aussi Saya John, le vieux patriarche, Uma, la rebelle, Arjun, Alison et Dinu, les tourmentés, sont les héros vibrants d'humanité de cette fresque foisonnante, dont les vies portées par un souffle épique tissent sur trois générations tout un pan fascinant de l'histoire d'un sous-continent encore trop mal connu.

Rajkumar tiene doce años, es huérfano y se busca la vida en el mercado a las puertas del palacio real de Mandalay cuando Inglaterra envía a sus ejércitos a Birmania. La víspera de la partida de la familia real al exilio, cuando comienzan los saqueos, Rajkumar ve por un instante a Dolly, la doncella esclava de la reina, una niña de diez años. Nunca la olvidara y, ya adulto y rico, la buscara en su exilio. Una esplendida y caudalosa novela sobre la obsesion y el deseo, con un riquisimo trasfondo historico.

«Una saga familiar, pero también una meditación sobre el sueño y la memoria, más intimista que la anterior novela de Ghosh, pero sutil, profunda y escrita con la misma maravillosa maestría» (Le Monde