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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amitav Ghosh , Sam DastorPublisher: Brilliance Audio Imprint: Brilliance Audio Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.10cm Weight: 0.159kg ISBN: 9781713630067ISBN 10: 1713630060 Publication Date: 11 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: In stock Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsThis absorbing collection of essays by the novelist, journalist, and travel writer Ghosh . . . covers some two decades of catastrophe and upheaval, from sectarian violence in his native India during the 1980s through the September 11 attacks. . . . to the recent Indian Ocean tsunami. With an eye for evocative detail, he illuminates the human dramas behind the headlines: the plight of tsunami refugees trying to rebuild their lives and finances after every bank record and piece of ID is lost to the waves; the courage of ordinary Indians protecting their Sikh neighbors from rampaging Hindu mobs. . . . He is equally engaging when he turns from current affairs to literary essays on, say, the international culture of novel reading or the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. . . . Written in luminous prose with unusual understanding . . . an insightful look at a chaotic world. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Author InformationAmitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. Ghosh has won France's Prix Medici Etranger, India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University, where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |