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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 time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly...

The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean, The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. The story of the nutmeg becomes a parable revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials.

'This shape-shifting, time-stitching novel grants us special kinds of double-vision: across eras and between species. Under its spell, Amitav Ghosh helps us begin to live multiple lives - to become aware of the porosity and mystery of being, rather than of its fortifications and frontiers'...

"Der Doktor Schiwago des Fernen Osten" (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY) Amitav Ghosh fand mit seinem farbenprächtigen Epos über Liebe und Krieg in einem exotischen Land auf der ganzen Welt begeisterte Leser und war auch bei den Kritikern ein Riesenerfolg. Dieser erste große Roman über das...

Kalkutta 1969: Die kleine Varsha Gupta möchte Fisch zum Abendessen. Ihre Familie ist schockiert. Woher weiß die Dreijährige so viel über Fische und ihre Zubereitung? Denn die reichen Guptas sind strenge Vegetarier. Aber Varsha behauptet, sie könne sich an ein anderes Leben erinnern, an eine ärmliche Lehmhütte am Fluss. Als sich die verzweifelten Eltern an die Psychiaterin Dr. Shoma Bose wenden, die seit Jahren Fälle von Reinkarnation untersucht, wird ihr aller Weltbild durch Varshas Enthüllungen und Fähigkeiten verändert.

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 Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level of literature, history, and politics - to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.

Rajkumar is only another boy, helping on a market stall in the dusty square outside the royal palace, when the British force the Burmese King, Queen and all the Court into exile. He is rescued by the far-seeing Chinese merchant, and with him builds up a logging business in upper Burma. But haunted by his vision of the Royal Family, he journeys to the obscure town in India where they have been exiled.

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. When the seas settle, five men have disappeared - two lascars, two convicts and one of the passengers. Did the same storm upend the fortunes of those aboard the Anahita, an opium carrier heading towards Canton?

January 2001: A small ship, led by wealthy Scotsman Daniel Hamilton, arrives in the Sundarbans, a vast archipelago of islands in the mythical river Ganges, a half-drowned land where the waters of the Himalayas merge with the incoming tides of the sea.

Gun Island is a beautifully realised novel which effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women. 

LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An acerbic, compelling and always accessible account of how opium corrupted the world' TLS 'The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb' Sunday Telegraph 'A history of the opium poppy, which probes how the drug trade has...

È il 1840 e la tensione tra la Cina e l'India britannica cresce a dismisura in seguito alla repressione del contrabbando di oppio da parte di Pechino. L'oppio è troppo importante per le casse della regina, e troppo ghiotte sono le opportunità di profitto in quel fazzoletto di mondo per non scatenare una guerra contro il Celeste Impero. Sullo sfondo di queste tensioni, i protagonisti che abbiamo incontrato a bordo della Ibis si incontrano di nuovo, questa volta tra Canton e Hong Kong.

Nel settembre del 1838 una tempesta si abbatte sull'Oceano Indiano e la Ibis, la goletta partita da Calcutta con un carico di galeotti diretta a Mauritius, viene coinvolta nel vortice. Quando il mare si calma, cinque uomini mancano all'appello: due lascari e tre coolie sono riusciti a fuggire su una scialuppa. Seconda tappa di una grandiosa epopea storica, Il fiume dell'oppio segue i suoi personaggi fino ai porti affollati della Cina.

Una vecchia nave negriera trasformata in mercantile, l'Ibis, raggiunge nel 1838 la foce del Gange per dedicarsi a uno dei traffici illeciti più redditizi dell'Impero britannico, il commercio di «delinquenti e stupefacenti», cioè di coolie e oppio. A mano a mano che le difficoltà imposte alla traversata dall'impetuoso Oceano Indiano mettono a dura prova i vecchi legami, tutti sulla Ibis, ciurma e passeggeri, iniziano a sentirsi «fratelli di navigazione», uniti da una singolare empatia che azzera le distanze geografiche, le caste e le generazioni.

A 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.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 'A tremendous novel' -Literary Review 'Profoundly moving' - The Times 'Utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' -Sunday Times At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its...

The Hindi translation of The Living Mountain. A new story from internationally renowned author Amitav Ghosh, Mahaparbat is a cautionary tale of how we have systematically exploited nature, leading to an environmental collapse. Recounted as a dream, this is a fable about Mahaparbat, the Living...

A 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.

El nuevo libro de Amitav Ghosh, una poderosa obra de historia, ensayo, testimonio y polémica, remonta nuestra crisis planetaria contemporánea al descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo y la ruta marítima hacia el Océano Índico. ‘La maldición de la nuez moscada’ sostiene que la dinámica del cambio climático actual hunde sus raíces en un orden geopolítico secular construido por el colonialismo occidental.

Named a most anticipated book of 2026 by Esquire (Literary Hub) "Ghost-Eye is a marvel that will ignite a reader's sense of wonder—a masterful novel, at once simple and capacious."—Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award–winning author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His...