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This book is ideal for readers interested in travel, history, and anthropology, as well as those curious about cross-cultural encounters and the complexities of identity across time.
In an Antique Land
From the bestselling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extrarodinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern day travelogue.
From the best-selling author of The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies, an extraordinary work of non-fiction that combines ancient history with a modern-day travelogue.
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In an Antique Land tells the story of two Indian men in Egypt. The first was a 12th century slave; the second is anthropologist and novelist Amitav Ghosh, who stumbled upon the slave in the margins of letters that were written by the slave's master.
His curiosity piqued — even ill-defined, the slave's presence in the records of medieval history was completely out of the ordinary — Ghosh journeyed to Egypt in 1980 to try to fill in the details of the slave's life. His search, which would last for ten years, leads him to discover an 'elusive and mysterious acquaintance' in the slave, with whom he seemed to share, across 800 years, the experience of dislocation.
The author, a Hindu, comes face to face with the Muslim world and culture of modern Egypt, in a narrative that juxtaposes ancient history and modern travelogue.
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Sunday Times praises the book as "extraordinary; a travel book that reaches back into the twelfth century as it touches on the dilemmas of our own time." The Guardian highlights Ghosh's "engagingly humble and receptive" approach, reversing typical power dynamics in travel writing. According to The Times, it is "a rich and satisfying journey," while Bookmunch calls it a "captivating, extraordinary story" told with "grace, humility and insight" and universal appeal.
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ISBN: 9781847081940
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 January 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 140.0mm
Weight: 320g
Pages: 400
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About the Author
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.
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