内容简介
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant
second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as
their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator,
Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in
time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth
century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing
the ways in which political events invade private lives.
作者简介
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of
Delhi and Oxford and published the first of six novels, The Circle
of Reason in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, most
recently Harvard, and written for many publications. He currently
divides his time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn, and is writing
the next volume of what will become The Ibis Trilogy.