Tarak is born in the middle of the 19th century, at the height of the Raj, to a poor family of textile workers.

The portrait of a city that is welcoming and uncommunicative in equal measure, of a family united by the fragile bonds of necessity and love and the unique gaze of a marvellous woman at an extraordinary moment.

A Wave that Tastes of Fish tells the life story of a 34-year-old woman, Mamen, whose experience on the margins leads her to solitude and isolation, a spider's web that will gradually slip away from her after spending a few days with a girl who liv