In an antique land / Amitav Ghosh.

By:

Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-

Series: Vintage departuresPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, c1994.Edition: 1st Vintage Departures edDescription: 393 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780679727835
0679727833

Subject(s):

Contents:

Prologue -- Laṭaifa -- Nashawy -- Mangalore -- Going back -- Epilogue -- Note.

Summary: Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.Other editions: Reprint of: Ghosh, Amitav. In an antique land.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	BSOP Library	David Weisberg Collection	DT56.2 G34 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00054293

"History in a guise of a traveler's tale"--Cover.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-393)

Prologue -- Laṭaifa -- Nashawy -- Mangalore -- Going back -- Epilogue -- Note.

Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

In an antique land / Amitav Ghosh.

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