01484nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200180008810000230010624500230012926000420015230000260019436500300022052008210025065000150107170000250108694200120111199900190112395201120114220211011162341.0211011b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0025160036  cAL  aeng  223a962bGHOI  aAmitav Ghosh91165  aIn An Antique Land  aNew DelhibRavi Dayal Publisherc1992  a393 p.bHBc22x15 cm.  b₹210.00c₹d₹210.00  aOnce 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.  aLand91166  aGHOSH (Amitav)91167  2ddccGF  c216573d216573  00102ddc40708HISaALbALd2013-03-24g210.00l0o962 GHOIpGF02390r2021-10-11 00:00:00w2021-10-11yGF