Amitav Ghosh, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-618-32997-7
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THE HUNGRY TIDE
Amitav Ghosh
. Houghton Mifflin
, $25 (352p) ISBN
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Amitav Ghosh, Author , read by Firdous Bamji. Recorded Books $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-3694-2
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The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
, read by Firdous Bamji. Recorded Books
, unabridged, 14 CDs, 15.75 hrs., $
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Amitav Ghosh, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (305p) ISBN 978-0-618-37806-7
This absorbing collection of essays by novelist, journalist and travel writer Ghosh (The Hungry Tide
) covers some two decades of catastrophe and upheaval, from sectarian violence in his native India during the 1980s through the September 11 attacks
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Amitav Ghosh, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (515p) ISBN 978-0-374-17422-4
Diaspora, myth and a fascinating language mashup propel the Rubik's cube of plots in Ghosh's picaresque epic of the voyage of the Ibis
, a ship transporting Indian “girmitiyas” (coolies) to Mauritius in 1838. The first two-third
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Amitav Ghosh, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (311p) ISBN 978-0-380-97585-3
Antar, the Egyptian-American hero of this richly plotted literary thriller, is a peon in a huge corporation in near-future New York. His job is to monitor his powerful computer as it sorts through the inventory of a worldwide archive of mundane...
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Amitav Ghosh, Author Viking Books $17.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-670-82633-9
With Proustian precision, the narrator of Ghosh's second novel (after The Circle of Reason ) recalls the people and events that dominated his childhood in Calcutta in the '60s, and later in London, when those people, and the lasting influence of the
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Amitav Ghosh, Author Alfred A. Knopf $23 (393p) ISBN 978-0-394-58368-6
In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. Abraham Ben Yiju, a prosperous Tunisian Jewish merchant...
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Amitav Ghosh, Author Random House (NY) $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-375-50148-7
Ghosh's epic novel of Burma and Malaya over a span of 115 years is the kind of ""sweep of history"" that readers can appreciateDeven loveDdespite its demands. There is almost too much here for one book, as over the years the lives and deaths of...
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Amitav Ghosh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (528p) ISBN 978-0-374-17423-1
Find a story line—there are a number of them—in the second installment of Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy (after the Booker Prize–shortlisted Sea of Poppies) and hang on for dear life or risk being lost at sea in this tour of mid 19th-century south Asia. This...
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Amitav Ghosh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (624p) ISBN 978-0-374-17424-8
Ghosh’s final novel in his Ibis trilogy (after 2008’s Sea of Poppies and 2011’s River of Smoke) is set during the First Opium War in China, from 1839 to 1841. Ghosh’s cast of characters is lengthy, and many change identities; relationships and...
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Amitav Ghosh. Univ of Chicago, $22 (176p) ISBN 978-0-226-32303-9
In his first work of long-form nonfiction in over 20 years, celebrated novelist Ghosh (Flood of Fire) addresses “perhaps the most important question ever to confront culture”: how can writers, scholars, and policy makers combat the collective...
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Amitav Ghosh, Author, Phil Gigante, Read by , read by Phil Gigante. Brilliance Audio $42.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-7374-2
Ghosh's latest novel is a 19th-century epic of slaves, opium and the Indian diaspora. Phil Gigante didn't seem to note the time period; he reads Ghosh's work as if its characters dated from the 1940s, not the 1840s. Gigante goes to...
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Amitav Ghosh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-16739-4
Ghosh’s latest (after Flood of Fire) is an intellectual romp that traces Bengali folklore, modern human trafficking, and the devastating effects of climate change across generations and countries. Dinanath Datta, who goes by the more Americanized...
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Amitav Ghosh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $32 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-60292-5
Bestseller Ghosh (The Great Derangement) offers up a scintillating and kaleidoscopic vision of opium’s role in the past several centuries of global history. Centered mainly on events leading to the Opium Wars—19th-century British military incursions
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