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Amitav Ghosh

Biography

Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is the internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including THE GLASS PALACE, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. Ghosh divides his time between Kolkata and Goa, India and Brooklyn, New York.

Amitav Ghosh

Books by Amitav Ghosh

by Amitav Ghosh - Fiction, Historical Fiction

FLOOD OF FIRE, an epic and sweeping story, is a richly populated novel, imbued with a wealth of historical detail, suffused with the magic of place, and plotted with verve. It is a beautiful novel.

by Amitav Ghosh

In Amitav Ghosh's SEA OF POPPIES, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants. Now, in RIVER OF SMOKE, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone.

by Amitav Ghosh

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.