01361nam a22002177a 4500 20211011162341.0 211011b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0025160036 AL eng 23 962 GHOI Amitav Ghosh 1165 In An Antique Land New Delhi Ravi Dayal Publisher 1992 393 p. HB 22x15 cm. ₹210.00 ₹ ₹210.00 Once upon a time, an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out as an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagine, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell. Land 1166 GHOSH (Amitav) 1167 ddc GF 216573 216573 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 210.00 0 962 GHOI GF02390 2021-10-11 00:00:00 2021-10-11 GF