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The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0330353314 (0-330-35331-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan

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The Calcutta Chromosome is one of those books that's marketed as a mainstream thriller even though it is an excellent science fiction novel (It won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award). The main character is a man named Antar, whose job is to monitor a somewhat finicky computer that sorts through mountains of information. When the computer finds something it can't catalog, it brings the item to Antar's attention. A string of these seemingly random anomalies puts Antar on the trail of a man named Murugan, who disappeared in Calcutta in 1995 while searching for the truth behind the discovery of the cure for malaria. This search for Murugan leads, in turn, to the discovery of the Calcutta Chromosome, which can shift bits of personality from one person to another. That's when things really get interesting. [via]
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- The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery: ISBN 0330347586 (0-330-34758-6)
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- The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery: ISBN 0330353314 (0-330-35331-4)
  Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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The Circle of Reason
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0140140778 (0-14-014077-8)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited

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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 Persian Gulf to North Africa with a bird-watching policeman in pursuit. [via]
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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 000651409X (0-00-651409-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls a master storyteller. [via]
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The Hungry Tide: A Novel
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0007141785 (0-00-714178-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. 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 deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. Piya Roy is a young marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. Her journey begins with a disaster, when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir. Although they have no language between them, Piya and Fokir are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. As the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll that is every bit as powerful as the ravaging tide. Already an international success, The Hungry Tide is a prophetic novel of remarkable insight, beauty, and humanity. [via]
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In an Antique Land
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0140140174 (0-14-014017-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. [via]
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Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
by Justin D. Edwards, Tabish Khair, Martin Leer, Hanna Ziadeh, Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0253218217 (0-253-21821-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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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 crosses time and culture. This original and significant book will interest armchair travelers and others in views of people and places away from the European travelers gaze.
Selections include "The Travels of a Japanese Monk" (c. 838), "Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller" (c. 1290), "A Korean Officials Account of China" (1488), "The Poetry of Bashos Road" (1689), "Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British" (1890). [via]
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- Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing: ISBN 0253346932 (0-253-34693-2)
  Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
- Other Routes: 1500 Years of African And Asian Travel Writings: ISBN 0253218217 (0-253-21821-7)
  Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0374174229 (0-374-17422-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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- Sea of Poppies: ISBN 0374174229 (0-374-17422-9)
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Shadow Lines
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 0140118357 (0-14-011835-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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one of the most important novels we have carried. used widely as text. covers India, c. 1940s and 50s, communalism, nationalism, classic [via]
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