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His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace. Between 2004 and 2015, he worked on the Ibis trilogy, which revolves around the build-up and implications of the First Opium War.
About Biography Awards Books The Great Derangement Flood of Fire River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh has 50 books on Goodreads with 336966 ratings. Amitav Ghosh’s most popular book is Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1).
Born in Kolkata in 1956, Ghosh studied social anthropology at Oxford and divides his time between India and the United States. He has produced a vast body of work, made up of both historical novels and journalistic essays that carry the reader across continents and oceans.
Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide.
Amitav Ghosh argues that the nutmeg's violent trajectory from its native islands is revealing of a wider colonial mindset which justifies the exploitation of human life and the natural environment, and which dominates geopolitics to this day.
Feb 13, 2024 · Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large.
Amitav Ghosh's Favourite Reads. About Amitav in his own words:As a child I loved to read the Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandopadhyay. He wrote in an astonishingly varied number of genres: detective stories, historical fiction, ghost stories, romances and so on.
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Jun 7, 2004 · Amitav Ghosh. 3.98. 18,616 ratings1,589 reviews. Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers.
