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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.
Amitav Ghosh has 50 books on Goodreads with 338467 ratings. Amitav Ghosh’s most popular book is Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1).
The Great Derangement. Flood of Fire. River of Smoke. Sea of Poppies. The Hungry Tide. The Glass Palace. The Calcutta Chromosome. In An Antique Land. The Shadow Lines.
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.
Complete order of Amitav Ghosh books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
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.
The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, consisting of the novels Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015). A work of postcolonial literature, the story is set across the Indian Ocean region during the 1830s in the lead-up to the First Opium War.
Amitav Ghosh is a prizewinning Indian novelist and author whose books have been recommended many times on Five Books. Born in Calcutta, he grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria.
The Great Derangement – Amitav Ghosh. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UNTHINKABLE. 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?
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.
