Amitav Ghosh

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Calcutta 1969. Treåriga Varsha Gupta förbryllar sin familj när hon plötsligt kräver fisk – något hon aldrig har ätit. Hon påstår sig minnas ett annat liv, vid en flod där hon levde med en annan mor. När en psykiater börjar undersöka hennes fall sätts en kedja av händelser i rörelse som förändrar allt. Femtio år senare dras nya människor in i mysteriet, och bortglömda minnen börjar vakna till liv. Ghost-Eye är en suggestiv roman om identitet, öde och de osynliga band som förenar våra liv över tid och rum. En fristående fortsättning på Öarna. ”Amitav Ghoshs intellektuella elegans och bemästrande av form gör honom till en av de sista stora utövarna av idéromanen. ” – Pankaj Mishra

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.

Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a "case of the reincarnation type." Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, in a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different mother. Perplexed, the Guptas turn to Dr. Shoma Bose, a psychologist who has been investigating what are known as "cases of the reincarnation type" for years. But her understanding of the world is changed forever by Varsha's revelations. Half a century later, Varsha's case file catches the attention of a group of environmental activists, and Shoma's nephew Dinu is drawn inexorably into their plans. As Dinu finds himself caught up in the search for Varsha, buried memories of his own past begin to surface. Traveling between late 1960s Calcutta and present-day Brooklyn, Amitav Ghosh's Ghost-Eye is an urgent and expansive novel from one of our greatest living storytellers, about family, fate, and our fragile planet.

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMESWild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection. From the significance of the commodification of the clove, the diversity of the mangrove forests in West Bengal and the radical fluidity of multilingualism, Wild Fictions is a powerful refutation of imperial violence, a fascinating exploration of the fictions we weave to absorb history, and a reminder of the importance of empathy. With the combination of moral passion, intellectual curiosity and literary elegance that defines his writing, Amitav Ghosh makes us understand the world in new, and urgent, ways. Together, the pieces within Wild Fictions chart a course that allows us to heal our relationships and restore a delicate balance with the volatile landscapes to which we all belong.'We owe a great debt to Ghosh's brilliant mind, avenging pen, and huge soul' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything

"En våg av eld" är den tredje delen i amitav Ghoshs hyllade Ibis-trilogi. Året är 1839 och spänningen har snabbt ökat mellan Kina och Storbritannien. Plötsligt förklarar britterna – som vill tvinga Kina att köpa opium – krig. Ett av fartygen som rekvirerats för attacken, Hinden, reser österut från Bengalen i brittiska Indien till Kina och seglar in mitt i det första opiumkriget. På båten finns indiern Kesri Singh, som slåss för Ostindiska kompaniet; Zachary Reid, en amerikansk ung sjöman som vill göra en klassresa genom att sälja opium, och Shireen Modi, en målmedveten parsisk änka som vill återta sin opiumhandlande mans tillgångar och återupprätta hans rykte. I "En våg av eld" får vi följa dem, och flera andra karaktärer från de två första delarna, under inledningen av första opiumkriget. Under striderna och fortsatt spelar skeppet Ibis en viktig roll i historien. Amitav Ghoshs Ibistrilogi är ett mästerverk om den koloniala historia som än idag gör sig påmind i vår samtida världsordning.

Semejnaja saga dlinoju v vek i masshtabnyj istoricheskij roman, okhvatyvajuschij ne tolko stoletie, no i ogromnuju territoriju - ot Malajzii i Birmy do Indii. Istorija indijskogo malchika-siroty Radzhkumara, okazavshegosja v birmanskom Mandalae, i devochki Dolli, sluzhanki pri koroleve Birmy. Oni vstretjatsja odnazhdy v Stekljannom Dvortse, ljubimom meste korolevy, gde ona budet iskat spasenija vo vremja prikhoda britanskoj armii v 1885 godu. Tak nachnetsja slozhnaja, mnogoplanovaja istorija Radzhkumara i Dolli, v orbitu kotoroj budut popadat vse novye i novye geroi. Ikh sudby okazhutsja naprjamuju svjazany s sudboj Indii, Birmy i Malaji. Bednye i bogatye, koroli i bezrodnye siroty, plantatory i revoljutsionery, voennye i studenty - kogo tolko net v etom ochen sjuzhetnom, nasyschennom sobytijami, istoricheski tochnom romane. I kazhdaja sudba, kazhdaja istorija tesno svjazana s drugimi sudbami i istorijami, i vmeste oni obrazujut neverojatnoe, ochen krasochnoe, polnoe melchajshikh jarkikh detalej polotno. "Stekljannyj dvorets" - kniga, v kotoroj zhivesh i kotoruju pokidaesh, chuvstvuja, chto vnutri tebja chto-to izmenilos. Amitav Gosh napisal vydajuschijsja roman, kotoryj darit tseluju gammu chuvstv - soperezhivanie i izumlenie, negodovanie i voskhischenie, eto portret epokhi i ogromnogo regiona.

Klimakrisen er også en kulturkrise og derfor en forestillingskrise. I Den store vildfarelse udfordrer den indiske for­fatter og essayist Amitav Ghosh vores kollektive evne til at konfrontere den største krise i vores tid – klimaforandringerne. Med stor indsigt og en vifte af historiske, litterære og kulturelle analyser afdækker Ghosh, hvordan vores moderne fortæl­linger – fra romaner til politik – har overset de kaotiske og katastrofale resultater af de globale temperaturstigninger. Ghosh spørger sig selv, hvorfor samtidslitteratu­ren undgår at engagere sig i klimaet, og hvordan vores forestillingsevne svigter i mødet med natu­rens ufattelige og destruktive kræfter. Den store vildfarelse er både en advarsel og en opfor­dring til handling – en opfordring til at finde nye måder at fortælle historier om vores samtid på.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project. When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in the story. Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China to redress their great trade imbalance, and its revenues were essential to the empire's financial survival. Following the profits further, Ghosh finds opium central to the origins of some of the world's biggest corporations, of America's most powerful families and prestigious institutions (from the Astors and Coolidges to the Ivy League), and of contemporary globalism itself. Moving deftly between horticultural history, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, in Smoke and Ashes Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant has had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.

The Booker-shortlisted author of the Ibis trilogy explores the impact of opium on global history, economies, cultures, and his own understanding of self.

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial Times Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of social and political 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. From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, an unforgettable story of love, war and family. Spanning three generations, in Burma, Malaya and India, The Glass Palace is an extraordinary epic.

The Booker-shortlisted author of the Ibis trilogy explores the impact of opium on global history, economies, cultures, and his own understanding of self.

Bundook. Vapen. Ett vanligt ord, men ett som vänder upp och ner på Dean Dattas liv. Han tvingas överge sitt stillsamma liv i New York som handlare i sällsynta böcker och ge sig ut på en resa utöver det vanliga; en resa som tar honom från Indien till Los Angeles och Venedig. Öarna är berättelsen om en värld på randen till katastrof, om allt större folkförflyttningar och om ostoppbar förändring. Men det är också en berättelse om hopp, kärlek och tilltro till framtiden. Amitav Ghosh är en flerfaldigt prisbelönad författare. Han har bland annat tidigare skrivit den hyllade Ibis-trilogin, "Ett hav av vallmo", "En flod av rök" och "En våg av eld". "Rafflande samtidsroman" skrev DN Kultur när boken kom ut. "En av årets riktigt stora överraskningar" menade SR Kultur.