In an Antique Land

Amitav Ghosh

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Publisher:: Granta Publications, 01/2012
Binding:: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9781847081940
Item number:: 1353387
Volume:: 400 Pages
Weight:: 283 g
Format:: 198 x 128 mm
Thickness:: 30 mm
Release date:: 15.1.2012
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Blurb

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.

Biography

Amitav Ghosh, wurde 1956 in Kalkutta geboren und studierte Geschichte und Sozialanthropologie in Neu-Delhi. Nach seiner Promotion in Oxford unterrichtete er an verschiedenen Universitäten Indiens und Amerikas. Ghosh lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern in New York, verbringt jedoch jedes Jahr mehrere Monate in Indien.