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Amitav Ghosh Ann Arbor 2012

Amitav Ghosh

History and language

by Keith Taylor

posted 12/5/2012

Amitav Ghosh writes big, sprawling novels that encompass gigantic swaths of history. Characters in his books are fictional, but he is also comfortable inventing moments for historical figures; for instance, in River of Smoke, the second volume in his projected Ibis Trilogy (which he says might grow to four or five books before it's over), two young

 
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