Category Archives: Amitav Ghosh

“The Books Get Better and Better”: Amitav Ghosh Reflects upon The Alexandria Quartet.

Amitav Ghosh’s appreciation for The Alexandria Quartet is well-documented.  (Check here for a catalog of Ghosh’s numerous acknowledgments of Lawrence Durrell.) In a recent posting at his blog-site, Ghosh once again turns to thinking about The Alexandria Quartet.  On this occasion, … Continue reading

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“This Trilogy Reflects My Reading of Him”: Amitav Ghosh Talks about Lawrence Durrell (17 June 2011).

The current issue of the business e-paper livemint.com features a conversation in which the writer Amitav Ghosh discusses the influences behind River of Smoke (John Murray, 2011), the second installment of his critically-acclaimed Ibis Trilogy. When the interviewer asks Ghosh … Continue reading

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