Summary
‘Brims with ideas and insights … Ghosh is at his sparkling best’ IRISH TIMES
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.
From the significance of the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529349382 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529349389 |
| Author: | Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 733g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 166mm x 44mm |
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Extraordinary * Irish Times *Brims with ideas and insights … Ghosh is at his sparkling best * Irish Times *An unflinching portrait of our times from a refreshingly original perspective * Herald Scotland *
About The Author
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Medicis etranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. He holds two lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2015, he was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor, and in 2024 he was awarded the Laureate Erasmus Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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