Amitav Ghosh - Böcker

I centrum för denna storslagna roman står skeppet Ibis och dess passagerare. Deeti är änka till en opiummissbrukare, räddad från makens begravningsbål av den lågkastiga Kalua. Paulette är den föräldralösa dottern till en fransk botaniker och Jodu,...

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"En våg av eld" är den tredje delen i amitav Ghoshs¿¿hyllade Ibis-trilogi. Året är 1839 och spänningen har snabbt ökat mellan Kina och Storbritannien. Plötsligt förklarar britterna - som vill tvinga Kina att köpa opium - krig. Ett av fartygen som ...

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Den andra delen i Amitav Ghoshs mäktiga romanbygge om migration och kolonial handel, Ibis-trilogin, utspelar sig på Mauritius och i Kanton. Vi får följa karaktärerna från den första delen under de händelser som leder fram till det första opiumkrig...

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Bundook. Vapen. Ett vanligt ord, men ett som vänder upp och ner på Dean Dattas liv. Han tvingas överge sitt stillsamma liv i New York som handlare i sällsynta böcker och ge sig ut på en resa utöver det vanliga; en resa som tar honom från Indien ti...

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'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-picture thinking that has made his nonfict...

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Har vi blivit galna? Den indiske författaren Amitav Ghosh menar att framtida generationer mycket väl kan dra den slutsatsen. I den hyllade essäboken Den stora galenskapen undersöker han vår kulturella och politiska oförmåga att förstå klimatföränd...

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'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the ...

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"En våg av eld" är den tredje delen i amitav Ghoshs¿¿hyllade Ibis-trilogi. Året är 1839 och spänningen har snabbt ökat mellan Kina och Storbritannien. Plötsligt förklarar britterna - som vill tvinga Kina att köpa opium - krig. Ett av fartygen som ...

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In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmati...

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 'Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions . . . utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' Sunday Times...

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'As hypnotic as an opium dream and pretty unputdownable' Daily Mail In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in ...

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The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With...

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The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'An absorbing story of a world in transition' J. M. Coetzee 'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The Independent Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in th...

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Bundook. Vapen. Ett vanligt ord, men ett som vänder upp och ner på Dean Dattas liv. Han tvingas överge sitt stillsamma liv i New York som handlare i sällsynta böcker och ge sig ut på en resa utöver det vanliga; en resa som tar honom från Indien ti...

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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land...

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A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspect...

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Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. 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;...

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A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author 'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer? I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrilling...

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In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and...

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A profound and absorbing saga from the Internationally Bestselling and Man Booker Prize shortlisted author'Amitav Ghosh is such a fascinating and seductive writer... I cannot think of another contemporary writer with whom it would be this thrillin...

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The International Bestseller from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author'An absorbing story of a world in transition' JM Coetzee'A Doctor Zhivago for the Far East' The IndependentRajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dust...

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A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial Times Set in Burma during the...

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writer...

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Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with ...

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