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The Calcutta Chromosome

The Calcutta Chromosome

A novel of fevers, delirium & discovery: From bestselling author and winner of the 2018 Jnanpith Award

Amitav Ghosh
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A fascinating and seductive writer!’ –The Times
In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An authority on the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Ronald Ross, who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898, Murugan is in search of the elusive ‘Calcutta Chromosome’. With its astonishing range of characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and wonderful portraits of Victorian and contemporary India, The Calcutta Chromosome expands the scope of the novel as we know it, as Amitav Ghosh takes on the avatar of a science thriller writer.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Jun/2019

ISBN: 9780143066552

Length : 270 Pages

MRP : ₹399.00

The Calcutta Chromosome

A novel of fevers, delirium & discovery: From bestselling author and winner of the 2018 Jnanpith Award

Amitav Ghosh

A fascinating and seductive writer!’ –The Times
In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An authority on the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Ronald Ross, who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898, Murugan is in search of the elusive ‘Calcutta Chromosome’. With its astonishing range of characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and wonderful portraits of Victorian and contemporary India, The Calcutta Chromosome expands the scope of the novel as we know it, as Amitav Ghosh takes on the avatar of a science thriller writer.

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Paperback / Hardback
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