Amitav Ghosh

The Glass Palace is a 2000 historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. The novel is set in Burma, Bengal, India, and Malaya, spans a century from the fall of the Konbaung Dynasty in Mandalay, through the Second World War to modern times. Focusing mainly on the early 20th Century, it explores a broad range of …

Sea of Poppies is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of the Ibis trilogy. The second volume is River of Smoke. The main characters include Deeti, an ordinary village woman, an "octoroon" American sailor named Zachary Reid, an Indian …

Żarłoczny przypływ – powieść znanego współczesnego pisarza indyjskiego Amitava Ghosha. Książkę w oryginale wydano w 2004 roku. Po polsku w 2008 roku. Stron 412. Format: 145 × 235 mm. W powieści tej w reminiscencjach bohaterów przedstawiono prawdziwą historię osadników, którzy uciekając od śmierci w czas wojny 1971 …

The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1995 English-language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. The book, for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is a medical thriller that dramatizes the adventures of apparently disconnected people who are brought together by a mysterious turn of events. The …

The Shadow Lines is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh. It is a book that captures perspective of time and events, of lines that bring people together and hold them apart; lines that are clearly visible from one perspective and nonexistent from another; lines that exist in the memory …

In An Antique Land is an ethnography written in narrative form by the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.

Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, …