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

Автор: Ghosh Amitav
Название: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
ISBN: 022652681X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226526812
Издательство: Wiley
Цена: 15840 T
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 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. 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 summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.

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: Hungry Tide, The
ISBN: 0007141785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007141784
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal.

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)
Цена: 11030.00 T
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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
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Описание: The sequel to the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.

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

Автор: Amitav Ghosh
Название: Sea of Poppies
ISBN: 0719523435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719523434
Издательство: Hodder
Цена: 7070.00 T
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Описание: At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman.

As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China.

But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive -- a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.

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: Amitav Ghosh
Название: River Of Smoke
ISBN: 184854717X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848547179
Издательство: Hodder
Цена: 7070.00 T
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Описание: A "Washington Post" Notable Fiction Book for 2011

The "Ibis," loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck-hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her homeland with her lover, Kalua.
The storm also threatens the clipper ship "Anahita," groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton. And the "Redruth," a nursery ship, carries Frederick "Fitcher" Penrose, a horticulturist determined to track down the priceless treasures of China that are hidden in plain sight: its plants that have the power to heal, or beautify, or intoxicate. All will converge in Canton's Fanqui-town, or Foreign Enclave: a tumultuous world unto itself where civilizations clash and sometimes fuse. It is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Spectacular coincidences, startling reversals of fortune, and tender love stories abound. But this is much more than an irresistible page-turner. The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in "River of Smoke "the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries converge, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance. Critics praised "Sea of Poppies "for its vibrant storytelling, antic humor, and rich narrative scope; now Amitav Ghosh continues the epic that has charmed and compelled readers all over the globe.