{"product_id":"ghost-eye-9781473686700","title":"Ghost-Eye","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and urgent novel by the bestselling author of the \u003ci\u003eIbis \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy about past lives and saving our future.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This shape-shifting, time-stitching novel grants us special kinds of double-vision: across eras and between species. Under its spell, Amitav Ghosh helps us begin to live multiple lives - to become aware of the porosity and mystery of being, rather than of its fortifications and frontiers' Robert Macfarlane, author of\u003ci\u003e Is a River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A magical realist novel that believes in magic' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalcutta, September 1969\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVarsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can't understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different mother.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Perplexed, the Guptas turn to Dr. Shoma Bose, a psychiatrist who has been investigating what are known as 'cases of the reincarnation type' for years. But her understanding of the world is changed forever by Varsha's revelations.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Half a century later, Varsha's therapeutic case file catches the attention of a group of environmental activists, and Shoma's nephew Dinu is drawn inexorably into their plans. And as Dinu finds himself caught up in the search for Varsha, buried memories of his own past begin to surface.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTravelling between late-sixties Calcutta and present-day Brooklyn, \u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent and expansive novel about family, fate and our fragile planet.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Amitav Ghosh's intellectual panache and serene mastery of form make him one of the last great practitioners of the novel of ideas. Captivating' Pankaj Mishra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781473686700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 07 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.2(H)x15.2(L)x2.8(W)409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 409\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eAmitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of \u003ci\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), \u003ci\u003eRiver of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlood of Fire.\u003c\/i\u003e His other novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Circle of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Prix Medicis etranger, and\u003ci\u003e The Glass Palace\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e. He holds two lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2015, he was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize.  In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor, and in 2024 he was awarded the Laureate Erasmus Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003eDepicts 1960s Calcutta . . . with sensorial richness\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Ghosh is \u003cb\u003eas sure-footed as ever \u003c\/b\u003ewhen providing historical context for the region . . . With its rising sea levels and intensifying cyclonicweather, the Sundarbans emerge as a landscape under acute environmental pressure; its fragile ecology increasingly threatened by large-scale industrial exploitation . . . What lingers is . . . a grounded \u003cb\u003esense of a world shaped by shared memory\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magical realist novel that believes in magic\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Ghosh writes with a winning panache * Sunday Times, Antonia Senior *\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003eshape-shifting, time-stitching novel grants us special kinds of double-vision\u003c\/b\u003e: across eras and between species. Under its spell, Amitav Ghosh helps us begin to live multiple lives - to become aware of the porosity and mystery of being, rather than of its fortifications and frontiers -- Robert Macfarlane, author of IS A RIVER ALIVE?\u003cbr\u003eMetempsychosis, reincarnation - Amitav Ghosh's \u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye \u003c\/i\u003echallenges you to believe, and on the way engages you with a \u003cb\u003egripping story of youth and self-knowledge\u003c\/b\u003e -- Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of THEFT and AFTERLIVES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvel that will ignite a reader's sense of wonder - a masterful novel, at once simple and capacious. Ghosh is one of our finest writers\u003c\/b\u003e -- Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award–winning author of THE TRUE TRUE STORY OF RAJA THE GULLIBLE (AND HIS MOTHER)\u003cbr\u003eAmitav Ghosh's\u003cb\u003e intellectual panache and serene mastery of form\u003c\/b\u003e make him \u003cb\u003eone of the last great practitioners of the novel of ideas\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is the most \u003cb\u003ecaptivating\u003c\/b\u003e expression yet of an imagination unfettered by the protocols of the liberal-humanist novel: a novel that explores the very real, if still oddly underexplored, world of the spirit that hundreds of millions of people inhabit simultaneously with its material counterpart -- Pankaj Mishra, author of THE WORLD AFTER GAZA and RUN AND HIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003cb\u003ebrilliant return to Ghosh's speculative vein\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ehaunting and liberating\u003c\/b\u003e as it confronts hierarchies ancient and modern -- Siddhartha Deb, author of THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD and TWILIGHT PRISONERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmitav Ghosh has done more than any novelist to reimagine the role of fiction in our age of environmental emergency\u003c\/b\u003e. 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