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Ebook About Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.Book In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Review :
This book takes its title from the first line of Shelley's poem "Ozymandias": "I met a traveller from an antique land". None of the other reviewers, for whatever reason, have mentioned this extremely piquant fact. The reason for its piquancy is that Ghosh here explores the same theme as Shelley does in his poem: The passing of all things earthly.Though it is more evident in Shelley's poem, the dual narratives in the book, one set in Aden, Malabar and other entrepots of a millennium past, one amongst the "fellahs" of Egypt in the decade leading up to the Persian Gulf War in 1990, point the reader to contemplate the ever-shifting sands of history and temporality, the ever-changing relationships of religion to religion, country to country, person to person.The passage on Malabar, once a great trading centre, is exquisite:"There is nothing now anywhere in sight of the Bandar to lend credence to the great mansions and residences that Ibn Battuta and Duarte Barbosa spoke of. Now the roads and lanes around the wharfs fall quiet after sunset; shipping offices shut their doors, coffee-shops pull down their shutters, and only a few passengers waiting to cross to the sand-spit remain. The imagination balks at the thought that the Bandar once drew merchants and mariners from distant corners of the world."And, likewise, at the end of the book, during the onset of the Gulf War, when a great exodus of Egyptians - including Ghosh's friend Nabeel - are trying to make it back into Egypt, the scene portrayed on the TV set, conveyed in the last sentence in the book, is equally Shelleyan:"There was nothing to be seen except crowds: Nabeel had vanished into the anonymity of History." Though, at points, annoyingly disjointed, this volume manages - when considered as a whole - to convey the fleeting nature of human endeavour and so to remain true to its title's source. This author can do no wrong. A brilliant insightful writer that can tell a tale. Warm, witty, charming and possibly the best book I have ever read about the field studies of an anthropologist. This is among my favorite of Ghosh's works and this says a lot as he is my favorite writer on this planet. Read Online In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Download In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) PDF In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Mobi Free Reading In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Download Free Pdf In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) PDF Online In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Mobi Online In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Reading Online In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale (Vintage Departures) Read Online Amitav Ghosh Download Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh PDF Amitav Ghosh Mobi Free Reading Amitav Ghosh Download Free Pdf Amitav Ghosh PDF Online Amitav Ghosh Mobi Online Amitav Ghosh Reading Online Amitav GhoshDownload Mobi Fairy Tail Vol. 2 By Hiro Mashima
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