In an Antique Land

Informationen zum Autor Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy. Klappentext 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 slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. Zusammenfassung From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies! an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.

Product details

• Authors: Amitav Ghosh, Ghosh Amitav
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9781847081940
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-194-0
• No. of pages: 393
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Middle East; Indische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Egypt, India, Literary essays