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A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Calcutta Chromosome has been widely praised as a mainstream novel in India, Canada, and England — where, however, it won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel. Finally available in the United States, this fast-moving mix of genetic detective work and colonial Indian history is far more entertaining than you […]
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts of the emperor to stop […]
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghoshs radiant second novel follows two families — one English, one Bengali — as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, […]
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace […]
“The Hungry Tide is a contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on 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 […]
In an Antique Land is a brilliant hybrid, a subversive history in the guise of a travellers tale. It tells the story of two Indians in Egypt. The first was a twelfth-century slave; the second is Amitav Ghosh, who stumbled upon the slave in the margins of letters that were written by the slaves master. […]
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China??s vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate […]