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Amitav Ghosh
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in Calcutta, India
July 11, 1956
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[This is an excerpt from the journal on which my essay on Agha Shahid Ali is based. Shahid was under treatment for cancer at the time when it was written.] May 5, 2001 Strange irony that Shahid only recently got his [...]
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The Glass Palace
— published 2000 — 38 editions |
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
— published 2008 — 48 editions |
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The Hungry Tide
— published 2004 — 27 editions |
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The Shadow Lines
— published 1988 — 27 editions |
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River of Smoke (Ibis trilogy, #2)
— published 2010 — 30 editions |
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The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
— published 1995 — 27 editions |
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
— published 1993 — 6 editions |
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The Circle of Reason
— published 1990 — 20 editions |
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Dancing in Cambodia, at Large in Burma
— published 1998 — 3 editions |
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Countdown
— published 1999 — 2 editions |
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“How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
“[T]hat state, love, is so utterly alien to that other idea without which we cannot live as human beings --- the idea of justice. It is only because love is so profoundly the enemy of justice that our minds, shrinking in horor from its true nature, try to tame it by uniting it with its opposite [...] in the hope that if we apply all the metaphors of normality, that if we heap them high enough, we shall, in the end, be able to approximate that state metaphorically.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
― Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
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| The Book Challenge: Meghan's Other 2009 Challenges | 11 | 95 | Oct 31, 2009 09:58am | |
| Pick-a-Shelf: 2009-11 - Asian - What will you Read for November? | 81 | 132 | Nov 16, 2009 04:30am | |
| Between the Lines: January 2010- The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh | 15 | 85 | Jan 26, 2010 05:11pm | |
| 100+ Books in 2013: Beth K's 2010 Challange | 2 | 71 | Jan 27, 2010 10:29am | |
| Between the Lines: What books are you reading? | 1809 | 1970 | Jul 23, 2010 01:14pm |
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