Ghosh afirma que la naturaleza extrema de los fenómenos climáticos actuales los hace especialmente difíciles de comprender para el modo contemporáneo de pensar e imaginar. Esto se ve muy bien en el caso de la ficción...
El nuevo libro de Amitav Ghosh, una poderosa obra de historia, ensayo, testimonio y polémica, remonta nuestra crisis planetaria contemporánea al descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo y la ruta marítima hacia el Océano Índico....
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialismâs violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.
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...
In 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 seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascar...
From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.
' 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 Times
âA rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homelandâ a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our globalized culture, as it was when the sun never set on the British Empire.â...
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from...
The acclaimed author of "The Calcutta Chromosone" and "The Shadow Lines" has garnered comparisons with a "Suitable Boy" for this exotic, epic saga, centred around the British occupation of Burma. "A distinctive voice,...