![]() He spoke with Eleanor Wachtel in 2008, on stage at the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Ghosh lives in Kolkata, Goa and New York. Featuring a diverse cast of characters from across the Indian Ocean, it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. ![]() Sea of Poppies,the first novel in Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, goes to the heart of the British Empire with a tale of intrigue and romance on the eve of the Opium Wars. His remarkable nonfiction book In an Antique Land- combining historical research with personal narrative - grew out of his cultural anthropology studies in Egypt. He's drawn on his family history in novels such as The Glass Palace, which takes place in Burma and The Hungry Tide, set in the Sundarbans, the labyrinth of tiny islands on India's easternmost coast. The well-travelled Indian writer's own experience has fueled an ongoing interest in the connections between peoples and cultures.īorn in Kolkata in 1956, Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka due to his father's work as a diplomat. ![]() High-seas adventure, South Asian migrations and the 19th-century opium trade are the inspiration for Amitav Ghosh's epic Ibis trilogy. ![]()
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