Amitav Ghosh
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Series
Ibis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
515 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Description
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
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Description
Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability-at the level of literature, history, and politics-to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to current modes of thinking...
Author
Series
Ibis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
522 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
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Series
Ibis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
616 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
"The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind,...
7) Gun island
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This argument is set within a broader narrative about human entanglements...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
15 CDs (18 hrs., 5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in Burma, Malaya and India and spanning from 1885 to the present, this vivid historical novel of love and war follows the fortunes of an extended family and shows how historical events influenced real lives. The story begins when a young Indian boy, Rajkumar, caught in the British invasion of Mandalay, spies Dolly, a maid in the royal palace.