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Number of Pages
320
Age Group
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Language
English
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Gun Island Is A Globe-Spanning, Folkloric Novel That Follows Deen Datta, A Quiet Rare-Book Dealer, As A Single WordโGunโUnravels His Ordinary Life. A Literary Adventure With Mythic Echoes, It Probes Family, Heritage, And Belief Across A World Map That Runs From India To Los Angeles To Venice. Perfect For Adult Readers Who Relish Immersive, Intelligent Storytelling, Gun Island Is Adventurous, Thought-Provoking, And Deeply Human.
Structured As A Braided Journey, Gun Island Moves With Lush Prose That Shifts From Sensory Detail To Philosophical Reflection. You Meet Piya, A Bengali-American Catalyst; Tipu, A Young Entrepreneur Who Mirrors TodayโS Realities; Rafi, Whose Urgency Pulls At The Heart; And Cinta, An Old Friend Who Links The Threads. The Narrative Blends Folklore With Contemporary Landscapes, Inviting Readers To Savor Long Sentences, Vivid Scenes, And A Sense Of Discovery On Every Page. Through Deen's Evolving Beliefs, The Book Asks What It Means To Belong And What Stories Are Capable Of Saving Us When The World Feels Unstable.
By The End Of Gun Island, Readers Are Left With A Renewed Sense Of The Power Of Stories To Bind Communities, Heal Wounds, And Illuminate New Paths Forward. Gun Island Stays With You, A Book You Can Return To, Discovering New Threads And Questions With Every Rereading.
Product Details
Author
Amitav Ghosh
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Number of Pages
320
Language
English
SKU
BK0530419
ISBN
9780374167394
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
16.1 x 2.9 x 23.77 cm
Binding
Hardback
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Amitav Ghosh (Born 11 July 1956), Is A Bengali Indian Author Best Known For His Work In English Fiction. Bio From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Photo By David Shankbone (Own Work) [Gfdl (Http://Www.Gnu.Org/Copyleft/Fdl.Html) Or Cc-By-Sa-3.0 (Http://Creativecommons.Org/Licenses/By-Sa/3.0/)], Via Wikimedia Commons. Amitav Ghosh Was Born In Calcutta In 1956 And Raised And Educated In Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India And The United Kingdom, Where He Received His Ph.D. In Social Anthropology From Oxford. Acclaimed For Fiction, Travel Writing And Journalism, His Books Include The Circle Of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land And Dancing In Cambodia. His Previous Novel, The Glass Palace, Was An International Bestseller That Sold More Than A Half-Million Copies In Britain. Recently Published There, The Hungry Tide Has Been Sold For Translation In Twelve Foreign Countries And Is Also A Bestseller Abroad. Ghosh Has Won France'S Prix Medici Etranger, India'S Prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, The Arthur C. Clarke Award And The Pushcart Prize. He Now Divides His Time Between Harvard University, Where He Is A Visiting Professor And His Homes In India And Brooklyn, New York. Amitav Ghosh Is An Award-Winning Novelist And Essayist. His Most Recent Book Is The Great Derangement. Amitav Ghosh Is The Author Of Ten Highly Acclaimed Works Of Fiction And Non-Fiction Which Include The Booker Prize Shortlisted Sea Of Poppies (Book One Of The Ibis Trilogy), River Of Smoke, The Glass Palace And The Shadow Lines. He Has Won Numerous Prizes, Some Of Which Are The Sahitya Akademi Award, The Pushcart Prize And The Grinzane Cavour Prize. He Divides His Time Between New York And India.