Gun Island (Signed First Edition)

Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 10: 0374167397 / ISBN 13: 9780374167394

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York)., 2019

About this Item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. First American edition, first printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Publisher's price intact on jacket flap ($27.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Signed and dated by Amitav Ghosh in the month of publication (September 2019) on the title page, name and date only, with no inscription. Purchased new and opened only for author signature. "Gun Island" follows a rare book dealer whose journey from Kolkata to Venice explores climate change, migration, and myth in a rapidly transforming world. Amitav Ghosh, an Indian novelist and essayist, is the author of the Ibis Trilogy and several other works of historical and political fiction, including "The Glass Palace" and "The Shadow Lines." "Gun Island" is his tenth book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gun Island (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York).
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374167397
• ISBN 13: 9780374167394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, Chicago Review of Books and Amazon

From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down.

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen’s eyes to the realities of growing up in today’s world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey that will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him.

Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.

About the Author

Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy, composed of Sea of Poppies (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. He has received two lifetime achievement awards and five honorary doctorates. 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.