|
Product Description
Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, Chicago Review of Books and Amazon
From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down.
A dealer of rare books, Deen 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.
Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.
Features
- Orders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Sea of Poppies: A Novel (The Ibis Trilogy)
- The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
- Home Fire: A Novel
- The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Berlin Family Lectures)
- The Shadow King: A Novel
- Agent Running in the Field: A Novel
- Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood
- Broken Harbor: A Novel (Dublin Murder Squad)
- Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
- The Glass Palace: A Novel
*If this is not the "Gun Island: A Novel" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 23, 2024 21:03 +08.