In an Antique Land
$26.86
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
13 August 2026
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803513041 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803513047 |
| Author: | Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Imprint: | Granta Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 13 August 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Best of Granta |
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Critics Review
Ghosh’s book is extraordinary; a travel book that reaches back into the twelth century as it touches on the dilemmas of our own time. * Sunday Times *
Ghosh is an engagingly humble and receptive traveller… a refreshing reversal of the usual power relationship between the observing (European) travel writer and his indigenous subjects. * Guardian *
A rich and satisfying journey * The Times *
This captivating, extraordinary story offers the general reader a vision of a rapidly disappearing world told with such grace, humility and insight that its appeal is universal – Julie Fisher * Bookmunch *
Amitav Ghosh
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
- In an Antique Land
- Dancing in Cambodia
- The Calcutta Chromosome
- The Glass Palace
- Incendiary Circumstances
- The Hungry Tide
- Sea of Poppies
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