โ N M Zoltack
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ English
โ 231 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Incendiary circumstances: a chronicle of the turmoil of our times
โ Scribed by Amitav Ghosh
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0547527136
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A journalist who "illuminates the human drama behind the headlines" writes about today's dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly).
"An uncannily honest writer," Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times.
Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh's arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood.
In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested...
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