<div>A journalist who &ldquo;illuminates the human drama behind the headlines&rdquo; writes about today&rsquo;s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;An uncannily honest writer,&rdquo; Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh&rsquo;s arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan; interviewed Pol Pot&rsquo;s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira Gandhi&rsquo;s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. &ldquo;Ghosh is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . . Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you&rsquo;ve finished this book, you&rsquo;re very likely to press it into your friends&rsquo; hands and beg them to read it as well.&rdquo; &mdash;Sunday Oregonian</div>

Incendiary Circumstances

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this &ldquo;utterly involving&rdquo; novel (The Sunday Times). When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Alu&mdash;potato&mdash;for the size and shape of his extraordinary head. His uncle Balaram, the local schoolmaster and phrenology enthusiast, sends Alu to apprentice as a weaver, and the boy soon surpasses the skill of his master. But when a tragic bombing leaves Alu suspected of terrorism, he flees across India to Bombay and the Arabian Sea, followed all the way by the dogged policeman&mdash;and avid ornithologist&mdash;Jyoti Das. From East Bengal to the Persian Gulf and North Africa, Amitav Ghosh&rsquo;s wild and extraordinary novel &ldquo;follows in the footsteps of magical realists like Gabriel Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez and Salman Rushdie&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;A novelist of dazzling ingenuity.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &ldquo;A Scheherezade effortlessly spinning tales within tales, the possessor of a strong narrative voice quite like no other.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsday &ldquo;Ghosh&rsquo;s writing soars, producing electric images.&rdquo; &mdash;The Baltimore Sun &ldquo;A wonderful mix of magic and horror, wit and curiosity . . . Ghosh has really woven a fresh world for us to visit.&rdquo; &mdash;Providence Sunday Journal</div>

The Circle of Reason

<div>&ldquo;A stunning novel&rdquo; following two families&mdash;one British, one Bengali&mdash;from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic). Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh&rsquo;s radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the generations in both tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence&mdash;observing the ways in which political events invade private lives&mdash;in an &ldquo;ambitious, funny, poignant&rdquo; saga (A. K. Ramanujan). &ldquo;Amusing, sad, wise, and truly international in scope.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

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The Shadow Lines

<div>A &ldquo;concise and utterly enlightening&rdquo; look at why we can&rsquo;t wrap our minds around climate change (Publishers Weekly). 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&mdash;at the level of literature, history, and politics&mdash;to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today&rsquo;s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to current modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable; they are automatically consigned to genres like science fiction. In the writing of history, too, the crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications, but the carbon economy is a tangled story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action, and that limitation comes at great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence&mdash;a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer&rsquo;s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time, and &ldquo;makes the case that climate solutions can&rsquo;t be left to scientists, technocrats, and politicians&rdquo; (Los Angeles Review of Books). &ldquo;Perhaps the most penetrating cultural critic of a new age defined by climate change and the strange, inadequate, and often self-deluding ways we process its transformations in our storytelling.&rdquo;&mdash;New York Magazine &ldquo;Resistance to the grim realities of climate change is so widespread that the crisis barely figures in literary fiction, notes writer Amitav Ghosh&hellip;The solution, he argues, lies in collective action as well as scientific and governmental involvement.&rdquo;&mdash;Nature</div>

The Great Derangement

<div>Three lives collide on an island off India: &ldquo;An engrossing tale of caste and culture&hellip; introduces readers to a little-known world.&rdquo;&mdash;Entertainment Weekly 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 tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. At any moment, tidal floods may rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people collide. Piya Roy is a 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, they 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 launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll as powerful as the ravaging tide. From the national bestselling author of Gun Island, The Hungry Tide was a winner of the Crossword Book Prize and a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize. &ldquo;A great swirl of political, social, and environmental issues, presented through a story that&rsquo;s full of romance, suspense, and poetry.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Masterful.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review)</div>

The Hungry Tide

<div>The author of The Great Derangement finds the origins of our climate crisis in Western colonialism&rsquo;s violent exploitation of human life and the environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh&rsquo;s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg&rsquo;s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh&rsquo;s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation&mdash;of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh&rsquo;s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg&rsquo;s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces. </div>

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Books By Amitav Ghosh (6 Books)

Incendiary Circumstances

The Circle of Reason

The Shadow Lines

The Great Derangement

The Hungry Tide

The Nutmeg's Curse

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Books By Amitav Ghosh (6 Books)

Incendiary Circumstances

The Circle of Reason

The Shadow Lines

The Great Derangement

The Hungry Tide

The Nutmeg's Curse

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