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Gun island : a novel / Amitav Ghosh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: India: Penguin Random House India, 2019Edition: First American editionDescription: 313 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780670089161
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.24 23 G4272g
Summary: "It is in his hometown of Kolkata where Dr. Deen Datta meets, by chance, a distant relative who upends his world with the mention of a figure that has long haunted Deen's imagination--Bonduki Sadagar, the mysterious Gun Merchant of Bengali legend. A Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, Deen, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depts of the snake-infested Sundarbans, in search of a shrine to the Merchant. Thus begins an unforgettable journey both inward and outward, and moving across continents. As Deen's journey progresses, he confronts a changing world and encounters a cast of characters who will unsettle everything he thought he kenw about himself. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali American who helps launch his journey; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who shows Deen the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, desperate to help those in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story that binds them all."--Dust jacket front flap.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) South Asian Corner (Level 4) 823.24 G4272g 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 027126
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823 S6171b 2004 Burial at sea / 823 S6171t 2007 Train to Pakistan / 823 Z133m 2008 My God is a woman / 823.24 G4272g 2019 Gun island : a novel / 823.3 D4509a The artist of disappearance / 823.3 H348w 2016 This wide night / 823.3 K5271s Seasonal adjustments /

Originally published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers) in 2019.

"It is in his hometown of Kolkata where Dr. Deen Datta meets, by chance, a distant relative who upends his world with the mention of a figure that has long haunted Deen's imagination--Bonduki Sadagar, the mysterious Gun Merchant of Bengali legend. A Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, Deen, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depts of the snake-infested Sundarbans, in search of a shrine to the Merchant. Thus begins an unforgettable journey both inward and outward, and moving across continents. As Deen's journey progresses, he confronts a changing world and encounters a cast of characters who will unsettle everything he thought he kenw about himself. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali American who helps launch his journey; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who shows Deen the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, desperate to help those in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story that binds them all."--Dust jacket front flap.

South Asian Corner (Level 4)