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  • THE NUTMEG'S CURSE
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    THE NUTMEG'S CURSE
    AMITAV GHOSH
    In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the N...

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  • THE GREAT DERANGEMENT
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    THE GREAT DERANGEMENT
    AMITAV GHOSH
    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 examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. T...

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  • THE HUNGRY TIDE
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    THE HUNGRY TIDE
    AMITAV GHOSH
    Three lives collide on an island off India: "An engrossing tale of caste and culture… introduces readers to a little-known world."— Entertainment Weekly   Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by tigers are common. Unrest and eviction ...

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  • INCENDIARY CIRCUMSTANCES
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    INCENDIARY CIRCUMSTANCES
    AMITAV GHOSH
    A journalist who "illuminates the human drama behind the headlines" writes about today's dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis ( Publishers Weekly). "An uncannily honest writer," Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker ( The New York Times Book Review) . This vol...

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  • THE SHADOW LINES
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    THE SHADOW LINES
    AMITAV GHOSH
    "A stunning novel" following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sea of Poppies ( The  New Republic).   Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the generations in both tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and E...

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  • THE CIRCLE OF REASON
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    THE CIRCLE OF REASON
    AMITAV GHOSH
    A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this "utterly involving" novel ( The Sunday Times). When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Alu— potato—for the size and shape of his extraordinary head. His uncle Balaram, the local schoolmaster and...

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