Gun Island
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.
A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey which will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood and about the world around him.
Gun Island is a beautifully realised novel which effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 and he grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ghosh studied at The Doon School in Dehradun and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. Works : The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire, Gun Island, Jungle Nama, The Living Mountain, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma, Countdown, The Imam and the Indian, Incendiary Circumstances, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Uncanny and Improbable Events etc.