The Calcutta Chromosome

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Prom internationally acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh comes the most singular and enthralling literary thriller since The Name of the Rose.
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The novels of Amitav Ghosh have been compared with the best of Umberto Eco, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His work has been called "mesmerizing" (San Diego Union-Tribune), "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review), and "stunning" (The New Republic). Yet nothing he has written before could have prepared the reader for his latest flight of literary invention—a major work of riveting power, intelligence, and scope that envisions a massive Pynchonesque conspiracy and brings it to life with all the page-turning suspense of a Crichton thriller.
It begins in a near future New York City, when Antar, a low-level programmer and data analyst for a large bureaucratic concern, comes upon the lost and battered I.D. card of a man he once knew—a man who vanished without a trace somewhere In the teeming excess of... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Prom internationally acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh comes the most singular and enthralling literary thriller since The Name of the Rose.
THE CALCUTTA CHR0M050/AE
The novels of Amitav Ghosh have been compared with the best of Umberto Eco, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His work has been called "mesmerizing" (San Diego Union-Tribune), "brilliant" (New York Times Book Review), and "stunning" (The New Republic). Yet nothing he has written before could have prepared the reader for his latest flight of literary invention—a major work of riveting power, intelligence, and scope that envisions a massive Pynchonesque conspiracy and brings it to life with all the page-turning suspense of a Crichton thriller.
It begins in a near future New York City, when Antar, a low-level programmer and data analyst for a large bureaucratic concern, comes upon the lost and battered I.D. card of a man he once knew—a man who vanished without a trace somewhere In the teeming excess of Calcutta, hidia, several years before. Strangely compelled, Antar initiates a search Into the facts behind the disappearance of the enigmatic L. Murugan, and is unwittingly drawn into a bizarre alternate history of medical science.
Leaping backward in time, we join Murugan in Calcutta in 1995, as he follows the twisted threads of science, counter-science and ritual back a hundred years further to the laboratory of Ronald Ross, the British scientist who discovered how malaria is transmitted to humans. Obsessed with the weird, fortuitous coincidences that led to Ross' groundbreaking discovery, Murugan has stumbled upon evidence of an impossible ongoing experiment in controlled destiny, protected by a powerful unseen society that moves the world in secret and in silence.
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Suddenly, every fact hitherto known can no longer be trusted, for everything has been revealed to be other than it appears. In this steamy, overcrowded city of clashing cultures and hidden faces, L. Murugan has opened a Pandora's Box that carefully orchestrated death and misdirection have long kept shut. And the truth that is revealed will have momentous consequences—for Murugan, for Antar, for a troubled female journalist and an exquisite Indian celebrity for everyone and everything human.
A chilling and provocative amalgam of adventure and ideas—beautifully composed and brilliantly executed—Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome is a unique and exhilarating literary experience. It is a novel that will have lasting impact, written by an extraordinarily gifted artist whose time is finally here. Vissza