In an Antique Land
By: Ghosh, Amitav
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BookPublisher: Penguin India 6 May 2009Description: 336.ISBN: 9780143066491; 9788175300408.DDC classification: B5106506 Summary: Packed with anecdote and exuberant detail, In an Antique Land provides magical and intimate insights into Egypt from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. It exposes the indistinguishable and intertwining ties that bind together India and Egypt, Hindus and Muslims and Jews. By combining fiction, history, travel writing and anthropology, to create a single seamless work of imagination, Ghosh characteristically makes us rethink the political boundaries that divide the world and the generic boundaries that divide narratives.
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Reprint of a classic novel that makes the reader political boundaries and cultural assumptions. Excellent on history, Egyptian and Indian culture. by the author of Shadow lines and Glass Palace.
Packed with anecdote and exuberant detail, In an Antique Land provides magical and intimate insights into Egypt from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. It exposes the indistinguishable and intertwining ties that bind together India and Egypt, Hindus and Muslims and Jews. By combining fiction, history, travel writing and anthropology, to create a single seamless work of imagination, Ghosh characteristically makes us rethink the political boundaries that divide the world and the generic boundaries that divide narratives.