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The Calcutta Chromosome
Amitav Ghosh
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Description for The Calcutta Chromosome
Paperback. An extraordinary novel from the best-selling author of the Ibis trilogy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An authority on the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Ronald Ross, who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898, Murugan is in search of the elusive 'Calcutta Chromosome'.
With its astonishing range of characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and wonderful portraits of Victorian and contemporary India, The Calcutta Chromosome expands the scope of the novel as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848544154
SKU
V9781848544154
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99-50
About Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published his first novel, The Circle of Reason in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, most recently Harvard, and written for many publications. He currently divides his time between Calcutta, ... Read more
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'Sea of Poppies Boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production ... utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page'
Peter Parker, Sunday Times
'A glorious babel of a novel ... marvellously inventive ... utterly involving ... ... Read more
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'Sea of Poppies Boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production ... utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page'
Peter Parker, Sunday Times
'A glorious babel of a novel ... marvellously inventive ... utterly involving ... ... Read more