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Amitav Ghosh
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July 11, 1956
in Calcutta, India
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When we think of the technology of movable-type print it is always in a spirit of gratitude, which is only as it should be. Yet, for all its blessings, print was also responsible for deepening the divide between words and images. Before the invention of print words and images had usually been [...]
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The Glass Palace
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2000
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Sea of Poppies
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2008
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The Hungry Tide
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2005
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The Shadow Lines
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1988
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The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
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1995
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
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1993
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River of Smoke (Ibis trilogy, #2)
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2010
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The Circle of Reason
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1990
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Dancing in Cambodia, at Large in Burma
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1998
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Countdown
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1999
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“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
“(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can never let go of the idea: it's the secret god that rules their hearts. It is what makes them come alive; they revel in the danger, the exquisite pain. It is to them what childbirth is to a woman, or war to a mercenary.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into a closet and lock herself in, stuffing her ears to shut out those sounds. But a door was no defense against her parents' voices: it was in that language that they fought, and the sounds of their quarrels would always find ways of trickling in under the door and thorugh the cracks, the level rising until she thought she would drown in the flood...The accumulated resentsmnets of their life were always phrased in the language, so that for her its sound had come to represent the music of unhappiness.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
― Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
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