Amitav Ghosh: 25 books

Nellestate del 1148 d.C. Khalaf ibn Ishaq, mercante in Palestina, scrive una lettera allamico ebreo Abraham Ben Yij_, che viveva allora in una città di nome Mangalore, un porto sulla costa sudoccidentale dellIndia. Era una stagione movimentata quella, in Palestina. In aprile era arrivata unarmata...

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,...

A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including...

Nei primi anni del XXI secolo Amitav Ghosh lavorava alla stesura de Il paese delle maree, il romanzo che si svolge nelle Sundarban, l'immenso arcipelago di isole che si stende fra il mare e le pianure del Bengala. Occupandosi della grande foresta di mangrovie che le ricopre, Ghosh scoprì che i mutamenti...

La schiera dei grandi narratori e scrittori che hanno fatto del reportage unarte abbraccia, comè noto, secoli di letteratura e ha prodotto non pochi spunti di eccellente teoria. Anton Cechov ci ha lasciato, ad esempio, un manuale del buon reporter che dovrebbe essere obbligatoriamente presente oggi...

Un roman multiple et fascinant dans lequel Amitav Ghosh donne la pleine mesure de son exceptionnel talent de conteur. C'est dans l'archipel des Sundarbans, ce pays des marées peuplé de crocodiles, de serpents et de tigres mangeurs d'hommes, que Kanai, un homme d'affaires sophistiqué, originaire...

A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this “utterly involving” novel (The Sunday Times). When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Alu—potato—for...

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even...

The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for...

A intervalli regolari di qualche mese, Tridib compare alla porta di casa dei suoi zii e cugini. Le gambe incrociate strette, la fronte coperta di sudore, dopo i necessari convenevoli imposti dall’etichetta, si precipita direttamente nella stanza da bagno, spinto dai capricci del suo apparato digerente,...

A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French...

È il 1840 a Canton e lopera del commissario Lin, inviato dallImperatore a porre fine al contrabbando delloppio per salvare le terre del Celeste Impero, ha già mutato il volto della città. Dellantica Fanqui-town, lenclave straniera, è rimasto poco o nulla. La factory britannica, un tempo ledificio...

“A stunning novel” following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling 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...

From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors,...