Amitav Ghosh

Broschiertes Buch

The Nutmeg's Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Beschreibung

From the bestselling author of the Ibis trilogy and The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse is an enthralling, panoramic history of the influence of colonialism on the world today, told through the surprising story of the nutmeg.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton / John Murray
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 820737
• Seitenzahl: 339
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 126mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781529369465
• ISBN-10: 1529369460
• Artikelnr.: 62081324

Rezensionen

What do you do when the subject matter of life on this planet seems to lack . . . life? Your read The Nutmeg's Curse, which eschews the leaden language of climate expertise in favor of the re-animating powers of mythology, etymology, and cosmology. Ghosh challenges readers to reckon with war, empire, and genocide in order to fully grasp the world-devouring logics that underpin ecological collapse. We owe a great debt to his brilliant mind, avenging pen, and huge soul. Do not miss this book-and above all, do not tell yourself that you already know its contents, because you don't. NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate