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'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMESWild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the...
'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...
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.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...
The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies.It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight,...
'As hypnotic as an opium dream and pretty unputdownable' Daily MailIn 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. When the...
A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters...
In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An...
A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others - an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his. When a seemingly...
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008'Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday TimesAt the heart of this...
Lors d'un de ses séjours annuels en Inde, Deen, bientôt sexagénaire, accepte sans enthousiasme de s’intéresser à un personnage folklorique méconnu et de visiter un temple perdu dans la mangrove. Lui qui a plutôt le profil du rat de bibliothèque s’improvise alors...
En Inde et en Chine, un grand roman d'aventures, mélange épicé de Victor Hugo et de Balzac. 1839. L'empereur de Chine décrète le blocus de l'importation d'opium. Les entrepôts des négociants anglais, indiens et américains sont fermés et leurs stocks brûlés. La flotte...
" Et quand tout le reste sera oublié, les fleurs de Canton demeureront, n'est-ce pas ? " Canton, ou plutôt Fanqui Town, l'enclave réservée aux étrangers et interdite aux femmes, est un lieu de commerce, de luxure et de raffinement. Dans un bouillonnement de langues,...
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...
Au coeur de cette saga règne l'Ibis, ancien transporteur d'esclaves converti en navire marchand. Partant de Baltimore, il rejoint Calcutta pour embarquer des coolies attendus à l'île Maurice. L'équipage est un assemblage hétéroclite de lascars et d'officiers...
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