books by Amitav Ghosh     books:     Amitav Ghosh      Other Routes: 1500 Years of African And Asian Travel Writings Indiana University Press, 2005 Other Routes collects important primary work by travel writers from Asia and Africa in English translation. An introduction by Tabish Khair discusses travel literature as a genre, the perception of travel and writing about travel as a European privilege, and the emergence of new writings that show that travel has been a human occupation that ...             The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery Amitav Ghosh Harper Perennial, 2001 A brilliant and compelling read. Following the lead of other reviewers, I'm one of those who loved this book. A fascinating and nicely paced mix of genres: sci-fi (which I don't read much at all), thriller/mystery, post-colonialist and others, this book takes the reader economically and fluidly ...             The Shadow Lines: A Novel Amitav Ghosh Mariner Books, 2005 A journey through space and time This is a wonderful piece of work. I was off to a slow start - but after the few pages I got so engrossed in the book, I couldn't put it down till I had finished it. Events from different eras, and happening in different parts of the world are beautifully woven into a ...             In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale Amitav Ghosh Vintage, 1994 Enjoyed immensely-have lived in the area I enjoyed this book immensely as I have lived and researched in the Kanara Coast of India where a main character in the book spends a great deal of his life and where there have been from early times trade relations with the Middle East. Although I have not researched ...             Irrawaddy Tango Wendy Law-Yone Triquarterly, 2003 An Important Book Irrawaddy Tango is a great read -- not only a rollicking ride but also, at times, shockingly brutal and necessarily honest. As a view into late 20th century Southeast Asia from the eyes of a female exile/refugee, it's a important look into relationships between men and ...             The Circle of Reason Amitav Ghosh Mariner Books, 2005 Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu flees his home, traveling through Bombay to the ...             The Hungry Tide: A Novel Amitav Ghosh Mariner Books, 2006 Character is plot, plot is character I think they say that character is plot and plot is character. This book proves that theory. The meticulous detail lavished on developing each character including Piyali Roy, Kanai Dutt, Fokir and countless others is what gives this book it's raison d'etre. The ...             Sea of Poppies: A Novel Amitav Ghosh Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 "...it was this minuscule orb--at once bountiful and all-devouring, merciful and destructive, sustaining and vengeful." In this amazingly rich work, Amitav Ghosh has created a fantastically entertaining and moving novel. He promises two more parts to complete this masterpiece, but this work alone has vaulted him into rare literary ethers. He has threaded a needle and woven together a ...             The Glass Palace: A Novel Amitav Ghosh Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002 a sprawling historical novel set in colonial Asia What a wonderful, wonderful novel! Mr. Ghosh has concocted a deeply engaging, epic, tale chronicling the life of one character (and his extended family) against the backdrop of Burman, Malayan and Indian history over more that 100 years. The novel clocks in at ...             Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times Amitav Ghosh Mariner Books, 2007 Good piece A collection of articulate essays written at different times and on different places and about different experiences. Though the piece on 9/11 was disappointing. It lacks depths of the other essays. The reader gets a glimpse of different places, different people, ...             El Palacio de Cristal (Spanish Edition) Amitav Ghosh Anagrama, 2003             Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma Amitav Ghosh Ravi Dayal Pub, 1998 Glimpses from the forgotten world The book comprises 3 pieces: 2 of them based in Cambodia (Dancing in Cambodia and Stories in Stones) and 1 in Myanmar/Burma (At Large in Burma). Like some of his other novels (In an antique land) and Amin Malouf's novels, 2 episodes separated by passage of time are ...             Imam and the Indian Amitav Ghosh Sangam Books Ltd, 2002 Over all these years, Amitav Ghosh has been writing non-fictional prose - reflective essays, activist pieces, political commentary, book reviews, autobiographical articles, academic expositions, translations from Bengali, and literary anthropology. This is as complete a collection as can be made of the prose which reveals that relatively unknown ...          products you might be interested in search for books chromosome, chronicle, circumstances, discovery, incendiary, irrawaddy      toavi.com    web we recommend a sprawling historical novel set in colonial Asia randomly chosen book: The Conquest and Settlement of Boriquen or Puerto Rico