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The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Fiction
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 and in ...Show more
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Fiction
Rajkumar is a young orphan helping out in a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Haunted by his vision of the Royal Family and one of their attendants, he travels to the obscure town where they have be ...Show more
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Culture | Series: Berlin Family Lectures
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability at the level of literature ...Show more
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Berlin Family Lectures
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literatur ...Show more
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Fiction
The new novel from the author of the widely acclaimed bestseller The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade ...Show more
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Fiction
The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the 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, li ...Show more
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Fiction
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Science
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new b ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Social Sciences
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
Category: History
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
Category: Fiction
"A stunning novel" following two families??--??one British, one Bengali??--??from the New York Times best-selling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic). Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine ...Show more