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Amitav Ghosh

Autor(a) de Sea of Poppies

38+ Works 13,661 Membros 429 Críticas 47 Favorited

About the Author

Born in Calcutta, and spent his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Northern India. He studied in Delhi, Oxford, and Egypt and taught at various Indian and American universities. Author of a travel book and three acclaimed novels. Ghosh has also written for GRANTA, THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK mostrar mais TIMES, and THE OBSERVER. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. (Publisher Provided) Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India on July 11, 1956. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. His first book, The Circle of Reason, won France's Prix Médicis. He has won several other awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar for The Shadow Lines, the Arthur C. Clarke award for The Calcutta Chromosome, and the Crossword Book Prize for The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies. His other works include In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Glass Palace, and River of Smoke. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honors, by the President of India. He made the New Zealand Best Seller List in 2015 with his title Flood of Fire. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Amitav Ghosh

Sea of Poppies (2008) 3,087 exemplares
The Glass Palace (2000) 2,710 exemplares
The Hungry Tide (2004) 1,817 exemplares
River of Smoke (2011) 1,024 exemplares
The Calcutta Chromosome (1995) 913 exemplares
In an Antique Land (1992) 889 exemplares
The Shadow Lines (1988) 832 exemplares
Flood of Fire (2015) 582 exemplares
The Circle of Reason (1986) 364 exemplares
Gun Island (2019) 322 exemplares
Imam and the Indian (2002) 50 exemplares

Associated Works

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (2022) — Contribuidor — 205 exemplares
Granta 25: The Murderee (1988) — Contribuidor — 162 exemplares
Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Man (1990) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
Granta 26: Travel (1989) — Contribuidor — 154 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1996 (1996) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature (2001) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Granta 20: In Trouble Again (1986) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth (1993) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares
Granta 147: 40th Birthday Special (2019) — Contribuidor — 56 exemplares
Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (2005) — Prefácio — 16 exemplares
Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt? Writers Respond to Capitalist Climate Change (2017) — Posfácio, algumas edições15 exemplares
Passages: 24 Modern Indian Stories (Signet Classics) (2009) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Penguin Green Ideas Collection (2021) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares

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Discussions

River of Smoke Group Read (June 15th) em 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Julho 2012)
Sea of Poppies Group Read: Week Two em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Janeiro 2012)
Sea of Poppies Group Read: Week One em 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (Janeiro 2012)

Críticas

One of those landmark books that significantly influenced my worldview. Highly recommended!
 
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harsharaghuram | 7 outras críticas | Mar 8, 2024 |
In an Antique Land is a hybrid book, that weaves together a travel memoir and a biography of a Jewish trader in Cairo sometime around 1100 AD.

Not sure what to make of this book. It took me months to go through it. At times it was really, really interesting, but a big load of it is an info dump that wasn't very engaging.
What I liked were the parts where Ghosh tells a story about Egypt in the 1980s through the eyes of a non-Westerner, a Hindu Indian in a rural Muslim village, which was refreshing to me. I liked the author's subtle, but often snarky comments on colonialism and cultural relativism.… (mais)
 
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 13 outras críticas | Mar 4, 2024 |
 
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BooksInMirror | 57 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
Fascinating and depressing in equal measure.
 
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TheoSmit | 5 outras críticas | Feb 10, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
38
Also by
13
Membros
13,661
Popularidade
#1,698
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
429
ISBN
443
Línguas
22
Marcado como favorito
47

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