The Calcutta Chromosome The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery

Now in paper back edition, this astonishing novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery ranges back and forth in time from an unspecified period in the future to the late nineteenth century in search of elusive ‘Calcutta Chromosome’. A medical thriller, a Victorian ghost story, a scientific quest…this astonishing novel ranges back and forth in time from an unspecified period in the future to the late nineteenth century in search of the elusive ‘Calcutta Chromosome’. It dramatizes the adventures of the enigmatic L Morgan, an authority on Sir Ronald Ross – the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898. With its extraordinary range of characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and wonderful portraits of Victorian and contemporary India, this is the novel in which Amitav Ghosh takes on the avatar of science thriller-writer. Winner of the Arthur C Clark Award, this is another major novel by India’s most accomplished writer of English fiction.