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Incendiary Circumstances Summary

In a thirty-year career in journalism, Ghosh has written extraordinary firsthand accounts of catastrophic events in every part of the world. For the first time, Incendiary Circumstances brings together the finest of these pieces - many of them never published in the States - in a remarkable and compelling chronicle of the turmoil of our times.

Incendiary Circumstances Reviews

'Starred Review. Written in luminous prose with unusual understanding, these essays offer an insightful look at a chaotic world.' - PW.
'Not just a laudable novelist (e.g., The Hungry Tide) but a top journalist.' - Library Journal.
'Thoughtful, sometimes mournful essays on the state of the world, with little good news in sight.' - Kirkus.

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Amitav Ghosh Author Biography

Amitav Ghosh is one of India's best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances and The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986.

The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of France's top literary awards, and The Shadow...