Amitav Ghosh
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Are we deranged? One of India's greatest writers, Amitav Ghosh, argues that future generations may well think so. How else can we explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In this groundbreaking return to non-fiction, Ghosh examines our inability at the level of literature, history and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events makes them peculiarly resistant to the contemporary ...
The grand finale of the IBIS trilogy - the year's most anticipated novel. One of the masterpieces of twenty-first-century fiction' - Literary review / It is 1839. The British, whose opium exports to China have been blockaded by Beijing, are planning an invasion to force China's hand. Their demands - an island base on the Chinese coast from which to continue their trade and a princely sum in compensation for their losses.
In Calcutta, Zachary Reid, an impoverished ...
The First World War was primarily a European conflict but it involved participation of soldiers from other parts of the globe as well, including India from where over a million-and-a-half men joined the war and fought for the British. The book examines the meaning of the war for the Indians, particularly the soldiers who had to fight in strange lands, against enemies with whom they had no enmity and using unheard forms of warfare. It deals with the impact of the ...
Over the past two decades or so, Amitav Ghosh has enthralled readers with novels and travelogues that have acquired the status of modern classics: The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, The Circle of Reason, The Calcutta Chromosome, and The Glass Palace. Much less known is the fact that, simultaneously, over all these years, Amitav Ghosh has been writing non-fictional prose - reflective essays, activist pieces, political commentary, book reviews, autobiographical ...
This novel is set in India and Africa in a time not unlike the present, and tells the story of three irrepressible people trying to find order in an anarchic world. The story centres on Alu, an orphan enlisted by his foster father as a soldier in his crusade against the forces of myth and unreason. When a terrorist bomb blast ravages their village, Alu flees, pursued by a misguided police officer through Calcutta to Goa and on to a trawler that runs illegal ...
Outside the royal palace at Mandalay, a small Indian boy called Rajkumar is helping to run a dhaba. He hears the ominous boom of distant guns; he picks up rumours of a conquering British force; he watches panic furrow the faces of customers...and sooner than anyone can comprehend, the ancient capital of Burma is in chaos. The British conquest of Burma unfolds before Rajkumar's petrified eyes. The king, the queen, and their retinue are exiled to Ratnagiri in ...
In an Antique Land is subversive history in the guise of a traveller’s tale. Packed with anecdote and exuberant detail, it provides magical and intimate insights into Egypt from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. It also offers vivid glimpses of the many small, indistinguishable and intertwining histories of India and Egypt, Muslims and Hindus and Jews. This is another of Amitav Ghosh’s books that, characteristically, ...
Between the sea and the plains of Bengal, on the easternmost coast of India, lies an immense archipelago of islands. Some are vast and some no larger than sandbars; some have lasted through recorded history while others have just washed into being. These are the Sundarbans. Here there are no borders to divide fresh water from salt, river from sea, even land from water. Here, for hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers and the ...
The first in Amitav Ghosh’s new trilogy of novels, Sea of Poppies is a stunningly vibrant and intensely human work that confirms his reputation as a master storyteller. At the heart of this epic saga, set in the 1830s, is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean to the Mauritius Islands. As to the people on board, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval in ...
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 ...
World famous author writes an astonishing novel with its extraordinary range of characters, religious cults, holograms, and wonderful portraits of 19th and 20 century India. The book follows the search for the history of the illusive and alluring Calcutta Chromosome. A wonderful reading.