An extraordinary epic 'The Glass Palace' is a masterful novel of love, war and family and presents us with a band of memorable characters, spread across Burma, Malaya and India, and across three generations --before the door to Burma...

"Der Fluch der Muskatnuss: Gleichnis für einen Planeten in Aufruhr" von Amitav Ghosh ist ein Sachbuch, das sich mit den komplexen Verflechtungen von Kolonialismus, Kapitalismus und Umweltzerstörung beschäftigt. Ghosh verwendet die...

At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.In a...

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...

The final book in the bestselling "Ibis" trilogy from the author of the Booker-shortlisted "Sea Of Poppies". It is 1839 and tension has been mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling in Beijing....

"Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories" von Amitav Ghosh erforscht die komplexe und oft verborgene Geschichte des Opiums und seinen Einfluss auf die Weltgeschichte. Ghosh beleuchtet, wie der Opiumhandel im 19. Jahrhundert nicht nur...

A haunting novel from the best-selling author of the Ibis trilogy. von Ghosh, Amitav

"The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis" von Amitav Ghosh ist eine tiefgründige Untersuchung der historischen, politischen und ökologischen Auswirkungen des Kolonialismus, dargestellt am Beispiel der Muskatnuss. Ghosh...

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an...

"The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis" von Amitav Ghosh untersucht die historischen und gegenwärtigen Auswirkungen des Kolonialismus auf die Umweltkrise, mit einem besonderen Fokus auf die Rolle von Gewürzen wie der...

Gun Island von Ghosh, Amitav

Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs...