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Informationen zum Autor Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke , and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason , which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace . He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis . He holds two lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2015, he was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor, and in 2024 he was awarded the Laureate Erasmus Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial TimesJungle-nama is a wonderful illustrated verse adaptation of a fable from the Sundarbans, the legend of Bon Bibi, which lies at the heart of his novel Gun Island,The Ganga, in her descent, or so the legends go would've broken the Earth with the force of her flow, It was Lord Shiva who safeguarded the world by catching the cascade even as it unfurled, With his ashen dreadlocks he restrained the current, braiding its strands into a life-giving torrent, Smooth flows the stream till it meets the Brahmaputra, another braided child of the Himalaya, This collision of waters sets the tresses free they become a liquid net, joining shore and sea, Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts, crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts, This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth to a vast jungle that joins Ocean and Earth, Vorwort A beautifully illustrated fable from Booker-shortlisted author Zusammenfassung A beautifully illustrated fable from Booker-shortlisted author
