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Title: The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery by Amitav Ghosh ISBN: 0-380-81394-7 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a confusing, delightful book!
Comment: The Calcutta Chromosome is impossible to categorise. It is partly a thriller, partly science fiction, partly (imaginary) medical history. It moves back and forth in time and in place, from colonial India to near-future USA. After a slow start, the book absorbs the reader in a confusing and multi-layered story. Ghosh writes in an engaging manner, with lots of humour. The protagonist, Murugan, grows on you and you start to sympathise with the poor man's quest. For sure, this book is not for everyone, but I personally regretted when it was finished.
Rating: 2
Summary: A Disappointment
Comment: Having read his exquisitely crafted "In an Antique Land" and his almost lyrically beautiful "Glass Palace", which struck a special personal chord as I grew up in Burma and India, I couldn't wait to read "The Calcutta Chromosome". I found it disappointing, not sure if it was history, a medical who-done-it or what. Amitav Ghose is in my opinion one of the most talented writers alive, but this book which is written with his usual gift of language and expression, left me with an incomplete feeling.
Rating: 5
Summary: Complex, but good if you like to use your brain
Comment: I did not enjoy this book when I first began to read it, the reason being that at first it is like a puzzle. There are so many different stories, and you can't peice them together. But the brilliance and beauty behind this novel is that as you read more, you get more interested. It's like a trap really. It gets harder to put the book down, until you reach the point where you have to know what happens at the end, so you read to the end and are happy that you read a good novel. It's that simple. This is a good novel. And while it is in it's heart a mystery, Ghosh does a great job of mixing different fields of science together to create this mystery.
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Title: In an Antique Land : History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh ISBN: 0679727833 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Glass Palace : A Novel by Amitav Ghosh ISBN: 0375758771 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: FLIGHT TO CANADA by Ishmael Reed ISBN: 0684847507 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 02 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: In a Free State : A Novel by V.S. Naipaul ISBN: 1400030552 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Dogeaters (Contemporary American Fiction) by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn ISBN: 014014904X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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