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The Circle of Reason by Amitav Ghosh
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A saga of flight and pursuit, this novel chronicles the adventures of Alu, a young weaver who is wrongly suspected of being a terrorist. Chased from Bengal to Bombay and on through the Persian Gulf to North Africa by a bird-watching police inspector, Alu encounters along the way a cast of characters as ...Show more
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
23.50 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Rajkumar is a young orphan helping out in a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace in Mandalay, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and court into exile. Haunted by his vision of the Royal Family and one of their attendants, he travels to the obscure town where they have be ...Show more
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
25.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: good
Fom the author of The Glass Palace, the widely-acclaimed bestseller. The Hungry Tide is a rich, exotic saga set in Calcutta and in the vast archipelago of islands in the Bay of Bengal. An Indian myth says that when the river Ganges first descended from the heavens, the force of the cascade was so great ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
29.99 NZD
Category: Environment
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new b ...Show more
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
37.99 NZD
Category: Environment
'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis.Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and ...Show more
The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives are intertwined with his. When a seemingly random act of violence threatens his vi ...Show more