In an Antique Land

Amitav Ghosh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2012
Granta Books (Verlag)
978-1-84708-194-0 (ISBN)

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From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.

In an Antique Land is a subversive history in the guise of a traveller's tale. When the author stumbles across a slave narrative in the margins of an ancient text, his curiosity is piqued. What follows is a ten year search, which brings author and slave together across 800 hundred years of colonial history. Bursting with anecdote and exuberant detail, it offers a magical, intimate biography of the private life of a country, Egypt, from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2012
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 140 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	1-84708-194-0 / 1847081940
ISBN-13	978-1-84708-194-0 / 9781847081940
Zustand	Neuware