This masterful novel by Amitav Ghosh, which begins with the British invasion of Burma in 1885, tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy who made his fortune i...

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China 's vic...

The Calcutta Chromosome is one of those books that's marketed as a mainstream thriller even though it is an excellent science fiction novel (It won the pr...

It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution...

"An uncannily honest writer." — New York Times Book ReviewThe novelist and journalist Amitav Ghosh has offered extraordinary firsthand accounts of pivotal...

A novel which traces the adventures of a young weaver called Alu, a child of extraordinary talent, from his home in an Indian village through the slums of...

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to th...

Off the easternmost coast of India lies the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. Life here is precarious, ruled by the unforgiving...

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of polit...

A very rare novel of ideas and a novel of ideas in these days. Amitav Ghosh’s new book can be called a “noosphere” novel, in which he combines the biological...

The final part of the “Ibis Trilogy” (the first two books are “The Sea of Poppy” and “The Smoky River”). The year is 1839, tensions between China and Britain...