Shadow LinesGhosh, Amitav
9780380975853
The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
Amitav Ghosh; Avon Books
ISBN 10: 0380975858 / 0-380-97585-8
ISBN 13: 9780380975853
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780380975853
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
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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, India, 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. 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.
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"Plotted in the style of an immensely sophisticate detective novel, 'The Calcutta Chromosome' is relentlessly inclusive in its sweep. Nothing--no symbol, half-thought or snatch of conversation--is without ulterior motive...."
D.J. Taylor, Literary Review, August 1996
Review:"The existence of 'research luck' has been often remarked; a serendipitous book almost leaps from the shelf, and fortuitous pieces of evidence obtrude themselves on the researcher in ways that seem almost supernatural. Scientific breakthroughs, too, have famously happened as happy accidents. These phenomena are given uniquely sinister treatment in 'The Calcutta Chromosome' by Amitav Ghosh, an ingenious and bewitching novel which proposes a dark, secret history of malaria research."
Phil Baker, Times Literary Supplement, 08/02/96
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