{"product_id":"ghost-eye","title":"Ghost-Eye","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAmitav Ghosh\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy, composed of \n\u003ci\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), \n\u003ci\u003eRiver of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eFlood of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. His other novels include \n\u003ci\u003eThe Circle of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Glass Palace\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of many works of nonfiction, including \n\u003ci\u003eThe Great Derangement\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Nutmeg's Curse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eSmoke and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to win the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The term 'one of a kind' gets bandied about in the arts quite a lot but the writer Amitav Ghosh not only deserves the encomium, he could function as a handy benchmark for assessing whether others merit it . . . Ghosh is a synthesist of the highest order, able to weave big, genre-bending ideas, vast sweeps of History and nuanced characterizations into compulsively readable narratives . . . Like nearly all Ghosh's work, \u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e contains multitudes that themselves contain multitudes . . . Magnificent.\" \u003cb\u003e--Junot Díaz, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] sweeping novel . . . The story--replete with history and science, spiritualism and synchronicities--suggests that to find salvation, we must 'remind ourselves of the old ways.'\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ghosh generates suspense by teasing out the history of [his character's] past life . . . The strangeness of \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e will keep readers on their toes.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvel that will ignite a reader's sense of wonder--a masterful novel, at once simple and capacious. Ghosh is one of our finest writers.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This shape-shifting, time-stitching novel grants us special kinds of double-vision: across eras and between species. Under its spell, Amitav Ghosh helps us begin to live multiple lives--to become aware of the porosity and mystery of being, rather than of its fortifications and frontiers.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Robert Macfarlane, author of \u003ci\u003eIs a River Alive?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ghosh writes with winning panache.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ghosh is a rarity in modern fiction: a rigorous writer unafraid to challenge his audience with dense material . . . Readers up to the task will be rewarded with a thrilling intellectual contest.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A thoroughly gratifying return to the full-form novel . . . Always an exceptional storyteller, [Ghosh] brilliantly combines what can be touched and seen with the documented otherworldly . . . Ghosh gifts a magnificent story ready to be believed, appreciated, and celebrated.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ghosh's fluent novel is rich in its detailed knowledge . . . Ghosh's vision of environmental action taken by ordinary people against corporations is inspiring . . Irresistibly readable.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An impressive feat.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Amitav Ghosh has done more than any novelist to reimagine the role of fiction in our age of environmental emergency. In \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, he draws the reader from the world we know into a shadow realm of reincarnation and levitation, of talking trees and whispering spirits. Mournful and exhilarating, \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e insists that, as its narrator says, 'In order to save the world, we have to remind ourselves of the old ways.'\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Nathaniel Rich, author of \u003ci\u003eCloudthief \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With swathes of history and science, humor under pressure, mysterious forces, and stunning revelations, Ghosh's provocative tale cues us to the wonders of the planet and spurs us to protest the mad greed and malfeasance fueling the climate crisis.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Amitav Ghosh's intellectual panache and serene mastery of form make him one of the last great practitioners of the novel of ideas. \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is the most captivating expression yet of an imagination unfettered by the protocols of the liberal-humanist novel: a novel that explores the very real, if still oddly underexplored, world of the spirit that hundreds of millions of people inhabit simultaneously with its material counterpart.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Pankaj Mishra, author of \u003ci\u003eThe World After Gaza \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRun and Hide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Metempsychosis, reincarnation--Amitav Ghosh's \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye \u003c\/i\u003echallenges you to believe, and on the way engages you with a gripping story of youth and self-knowledge.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of \u003ci\u003eTheft \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAfterlives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye \u003c\/i\u003eis a brilliant return to Ghosh's speculative vein, haunting and liberating as it confronts hierarchies ancient and modern.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Siddhartha Deb, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Light at the End of the World \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTwilight Prisoners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-executed story by one of the greatest novelists of our time. I was most excited to read it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Nuruddin Farah, author of \u003ci\u003eNorth of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a most anticipated book of 2026 by \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvel that will ignite a reader's sense of wonder--a masterful novel, at once simple and capacious.\" --Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePast and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a \"case of the reincarnation type.\"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVarsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don't allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, in a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different mother. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerplexed, the Guptas turn to Dr. Shoma Bose, a psychologist who has been investigating what are known as \"cases of the reincarnation type\" for years. But her understanding of the world is changed forever by Varsha's revelations. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHalf a century later, Varsha's case file catches the attention of a group of environmental activists, and Shoma's nephew Dinu is drawn inexorably into their plans. As Dinu finds himself caught up in the search for Varsha, buried memories of his own past begin to surface. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTraveling between late 1960s Calcutta and present-day Brooklyn, Amitav Ghosh's \n\u003ci\u003eGhost-Eye \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent and expansive novel from one of our greatest living storytellers, about family, fate, and our fragile planet. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/15\/2026 (EAN 9780374298395, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 pg. 116 (EAN 9780374298395, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780374298395, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9780374298395, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/27\/2026 (EAN 9780374298395, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eGhosh, Amitav\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAmitav Ghosh\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy, composed of \n\u003ci\u003e Sea of Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), \n\u003ci\u003eRiver of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eFlood of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e. His other novels include \n\u003ci\u003eThe Circle of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Glass Palace\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of many works of nonfiction, including \n\u003ci\u003eThe Great Derangement\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e The Nutmeg's Curse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eSmoke and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to win the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor. 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