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A dealer of rare books, Dr. Deen Datta is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those h...

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Main Author: Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition: First American edition.
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Summary: A dealer of rare books, Dr. Deen Datta is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey that will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him.
Item Description: Originally published in 2019 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain.
Physical Description: 313 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780374167394
0374167397
Author Notes: Amitav Ghosh is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Ibis trilogy, which includes Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke , and Flood of Fire , all published by FSG. His other novels include The Circle of Reason , which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace . He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2007 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009. He lives in India.