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Amitav Ghosh
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Calcuta, India
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
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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. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986.
The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France's top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the A...more
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The Glass Palace: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.88 — 1,117 ratings — published 2000 20 editions |
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Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.84 — 728 ratings — published 2008 16 editions |
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The Hungry Tide: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.81 — 686 ratings — published 2004 17 editions |
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The Shadow Lines: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.88 — 358 ratings — published 1988 13 editions |
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In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.85 — 274 ratings — published 1994 9 editions |
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The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.28 — 308 ratings — published 1996 14 editions |
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The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.45 — 101 ratings — published 1986 15 editions |
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Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.81 — 32 ratings — published 1998 |
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Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 4.00 — 16 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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Countdown by Amitav Ghosh avg rating 3.40 — 15 ratings — published 1999 2 editions |
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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: A Novel)
— Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace: A Novel)
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