A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the
headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist
attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest
writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal
world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and
the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings
together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our
times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh’s arrival in
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the
2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh
retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that
she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background
of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an
icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan;
interviewed Pol Pot’s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation
of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with
his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira
Gandhi’s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look
at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. “Ghosh
is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . .
Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you’ve finished
this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands
and beg them to read it as well.” —Sunday Oregonian
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ISBN
9780547527130
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Mariner Books / Open Road Integrated Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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