Selected Works @ Penn Libraries
Flood of Fire by Call Number: Van Pelt PR9499.3.G536 F58 2015ISBN: 0719569001Publication Date: 2015It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war. A thrillingly realised and richly populated novel, imbued with a wealth of historical detail, suffused with the magic of place and plotted with verve.
The Great Derangement by Call Number: Van Pelt PN56.C612 G48 2016ISBN: 9780226323039Publication Date: 2016-09-14In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining.
Gun Island by Call Number: Van Pelt PR9499.3.G536 G86 2019ISBN: 9780374167394Publication Date: 2019-09-10A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way.
The Nutmeg's Curse by Call Number: Van Pelt JC359 .G464 2021ISBN: 9780226815459Publication Date: 2021-10-14In 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 book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean.
River of Smoke by Call Number: Van Pelt PR9499.3.G536 R58 2011ISBN: 9780374174231Publication Date: 2011-09-27Spectacular coincidences, startling reversals of fortune, and tender love stories abound. The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries converge, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.
Sea of Poppies by Call Number: Van Pelt PR9499.3.G536 S43 2008ISBN: 9780374174224Publication Date: 2008-10-14In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a freespirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers.
The Shadow Lines by Call Number: Van Pelt PR9499.3.G536 S53 2005ISBN: 061832996XPublication Date: 2005-05-03Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives intertwine across the generations in both tragic and comic ways.
Amitav Ghosh
February 21 - 22, 2022
A Reading by Amitav Ghosh
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
6:30 PM Monday, February 21st in the Arts Cafe
in collaboration with: the Center for Experimental Ethnography
watch: on YouTube
A Conversation With Amitav Ghosh
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
Tuesday, February 22nd at 10:30 AM in the Arts Cafe
in collaboration with: the Center for Experimental Ethnography
watch: on YouTube
Video: Lectures, Readings, Conversations
Learn more about Amitav
- Ghosh's personal website
- Authors Unbound author bio
- Ghosh's personal blog
- Full bibliography
Awards and Recognitions
Sea of Poppies shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize
The Shadow Lines won the 1989 Sahitya Akademi award