The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel Of Fevers, Delirium, And Discovery

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This is a Used The Calcutta Chromosome Book in the English Language. Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary novel unfolds across time and genres, following the enigmatic L. Murugan. Beginning in an unspecified future and extending to the late nineteenth century, the story traces Murugan’s quest for the elusive Calcutta Chromosome, a puzzle he solved in 1898 Calcutta concerning malaria.

About the Author

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.

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Indian Writing
Literature & Fiction
0143066552 ISBN-10
9780143066552 ISBN
Amitav Ghosh Book Author