Amitav Ghosh

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Between The Sea And The Plains Of Bengal, On The Easternmost Coast Of India, Lies An Immense Archipelago Of Islands. Some Are Vast And Some No Larger Than Sandbars; Some Have Lasted Through Recorded History While Others Have Just Washed Into Being. These Are The Sundarbans. Here There Are No Borders To Divide Fresh Water From Salt, River From Sea, Even Land From Water. The Settlers Of The Sundarbans Believe That Anyone Without A Pure Heart Who Ventures Into The Watery Labyrinth Will Never Return. Survival Is An Everyday Battle For These People Who Have Managed To Strike A Delicate Balance With Nature. But The Arrival Of Piyali Roy, Of Indian Parentage But Stubbornly American, And Of Kanai Dutt, A Sophisticated Delhi Businessman, Threatens To Upset This Balance. Kanai Has Returned To The Islands On The Request Of His Aunt, A Local Figure, For The First Time Since The Death Of His Uncle, A Political Radical Who Died Mysteriously In The Aftermath Of A Local Uprising. When Piya, Who Is On The Track Of The Rare River Dolphins, Hires Fokir, An Illiterate But Proud Local Man To Guide Her Through The Backwaters, Kanai Becomes Her Translator. From This Moment, The Tide Begins To Turn. Amitav Ghosh Has Discovered Another New Territory, Summoning A Singular, Fascinating Place, Another World, From Its History And Myth, And Bringing It To Life. Yet The Hungry Tide Also Explores Another And Far More Unknowable Jungle: The Human Spirit. It Is A Novel That Asks At Every Turn: What Man Can Take The True Measure Of Another? Click Here To Visit The Amitav Ghosh Website

The Hungry Tide

The Glass Palace

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The Glass Palace Begins With The Shattering Of The Kingdom Of Burma, And Tells The Story Of A People, A Fortune, And A Family And Its Fate. It Traces The Life Of Rajkumar, A Poor Indian Boy, Who Is Lifted On The Tides Of Political And Social Turmoil To Build An Empire In The Burmese Teak Forest. When British Soldiers Force The Royal Family Out Of The Glass Palace, During The Invasion Of 1885, He Falls In Love With Dolly, An Attendant At The Palace. Years Later, Unable To Forget Her, Rajkumar Goes In Search Of His Love. Through This Brilliant And Impassioned Story Of Love And War, Amitav Ghosh Presents A Ruthless Appraisal Of The Horrors Of Colonialism And Capitalist Exploitation. Click Here To Visit The Amitav Ghosh Website

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The Hungry Tide - B Format

On 11 May 1998 the Indian government tested five nuclear devices some forty kilometres from Pokaran. Seventeen days later Pakistan tested nuclear devices of its own. About three months after the tests, Amitav Ghosh went to the Pokaran area, after which he visited Kashmir as part of the defence minister s entourage. He also went to the Siachen glacier in the Karakoram mountains where Indian and Pakistani soldiers have been exchanging fire since 1983. Ghosh then travelled through Pakistan and Nepal. Countdown is partly a result of these journeys and conversations with many hundreds of people of the subcontinent.

Countdown (PB)

Dancing In Cambodia & Other Essays

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.

The Shadow Lines

The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels, in magazines, journals, academic books and periodicals, these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present, events and memories, people, cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist, to present a collection like no other.

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