The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Ghosh Amitav

Автор: Ghosh Amitav
Название: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
ISBN: 022632303X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226323039
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: 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," Ghosh examines our inability at the level of literature, history, and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counter-intuitive 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. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer s challenge to his peers to create works that confront this urgent need before it is too late.
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Автор: Ghosh, Amitav
Название: Sea of poppies
ISBN: 0719568978 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719568978
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2008: a stunningly vibrant novel from Amitav Ghosh.

Автор: Amitav Ghosh
Название: Glass Palace, The
ISBN: 000651409X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006514091
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: 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 Independent

Автор: Ghosh, Amitav
Название: The Glass Palace
ISBN: 0375758771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375758775
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls a master storyteller. "

Автор: Ghosh Amitav
Название: River of Smoke
ISBN: 0719568897 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719568893
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: The sequel to the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.

Автор: Amitav Ghosh
Название: River of smoke
ISBN: 0719568994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719568992
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels.

Автор: Ghosh Amitav
Название: Sea of Poppies
ISBN: 0312428596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312428594
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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The first in an epic trilogy, "Sea of Poppies" is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" ("The Observer " London]).

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the "Ibis." Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as "jahaj-bhais," or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, "Sea"" of Poppies"" "is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" ("Vogue""). "

Автор: Amitav Ghosh
Название: Sea of poppies
ISBN: 071956896X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719568961
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: A stunningly vibrant novel from Amitav Ghosh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller The Glass Palace