ADVANCE PRAISE FOR BAUDOLINO "Fuses historical events of thetwelfth century with myths and fables, juicy romance, realpolitical issues, and deep questions of faith--and the result isdazzling fireworks." (Welt Am Sonntag (Germany) )"Without a doubtthe author's most playful book, suffused with an atmosphere offanciful freedom." (La Repubblica (Italy) )"Fascinating, ingenious,dazzling." (Newsweek )The kind of novel that changes our mind."(The Los Angeles Times )
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliantinventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle,determined to build a civilization better than the one they'veleft. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism andconformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopianexperiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the familytoward unimaginable danger.
From the author of the international bestseller The GlassPalace, The Hungry Tide is a novel of adventure and romance set inthe exotic Sundarbans -- treacherous islands in the Bay of Bengalwhere isolated inhabitants live in fear of drowning tides andman-eating tigers. A headstrong young American arrives in this lushlandscape to study a rare species of river dolphin. She enlists theaid of a local fisherman and a translator, and soon their fates onthe waterways will be determined by the forces of nature and humanfolly.