Wild Fictions - Amitav Ghosh

Wild Fictions

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2025
John Murray Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-5293-4939-9 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
From one of our most brilliant thinkers, a searing collection of essays about how we tell stories and our relationship with the world around us
Wild Fictions is a collection of essays written over the past 25 years or so and published in various journals and periodicals.

The essays can be clubbed under the broad headings of writings on literature and language, climate change and environment, human lives, travel and discoveries, and opinions and conversations. They focus on the abiding concerns that are reflected in Ghosh's works of fiction and non-fiction: colonization, colonialism and its effects; the complex and delicate link between humans and nature; the ways in which we understand and interact with the world we live in; the importance of history and (re)discovery; how we tell stories, how we use language; and the importance of speaking and writing on issues and events that are key to our times.

'We owe a great debt to Ghosh's brilliant mind, avenging pen, and huge soul' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything

Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. 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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 41 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-10 1-5293-4939-7 / 1529349397
ISBN-13 978-1-5293-4939-9 / 9781529349399
Zustand Neuware
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