73 Results for : amitav
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Recreating the India of imagination
Recreating the India of imagination ab 54.99 € als Taschenbuch: A comparative study of selected novels of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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Die Flut des Feuers / Ibis Trilogie Bd.3
Nachdem China den vornehmlich von den Briten und deren Kolonien betriebenen Handel mit Opium nicht mehr dulden will, erklärt ihm Großbritannien den Krieg. Die Hind ist eines der Schiffe, die bei dem Angriff zum Einsatz kommen sollen und segelt zu diesem Zweck von Bengalen nach China. An Bord sind unter anderem Kesri Singh, ein Kommandant der britisch-ostindischen Armee, der eine Kompanie Soldaten befehligt; außerdem Zachary Reid, ein verarmter junger Seemann, der auf der Suche ist nach seiner verlorenen Liebe ist, und Shireen Modi, die in China die Hinterlassenschaft ihres verstorbenen Mannes, eines erfolgreichen Opiumhändlers, an sich nehmen will. Sie alle geraten schon bald in die Wirren der Opiumkriege, die in Chinas verheerender Niederlage und in der Annektierung Hong Kongs durch Großbritannien enden werden.Eine vor Atmosphäre und Detailfreude flirrende, turbulente, spannende und berührende Geschichte vor der Kulisse Bengalens und Hongkongs, mit der Amitav Ghosh sein großes historisches Panorama über die Opium Kriege, die eine frühe Ära der Globalisierung markieren, fulminant vollendet.- Shop: buecher
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: You Are What You Read, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, William Powers wrote Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building A Good Life in the Digital Age because he feared people were getting lost in their electronic worlds. Powers tells Anne Strainchamps that the challenges of our new technologies are just the latest versions of problems we've faced every time technology changes. Sooner or later, we adjust and learn better ways to use our tools. Powers favors an Internet Sabbath at his house, even for his 12 year old son.Then, Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier. His memoir is The Junior Officers Reading Club.Next, Timothy Ryback is a Holocaust scholar and cofounder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in Paris. He's also the author of Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life. Ryback tells Steve Paulson the shocking truth that the two books that most influenced Hitler's thinking were American.And finally, Amitav Ghosh was born in India and educated in Delhi and at Oxford. He's the author of many award winning novels, as well as non-fiction and essays. The first book in his new trilogy is Sea of Poppies. Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in the Oxford English Dictionary. And he reads sections from his book. [Broadcast Date: October 21, 2011] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/111021/rt_tbon_111021_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fiction as Social Archive
Fiction as Social Archive ab 54.99 € als Taschenbuch: A Comparative Study of Amitav Ghosh`s The Hungry Tide And Indra Sinha`s Animal`s People. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: You Are What You Read, Hörbuch, Digital, 52min
In this hour, William Powers wrote Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building A Good Life in the Digital Age because he feared people were getting lost in their electronic worlds. Powers tells Anne Strainchamps that the challenges of our new technologies are just the latest versions of problems we've faced every time technology changes. Sooner or later, we adjust and learn better ways to use our tools. Powers favors an Internet Sabbath at his house, even for his 12 year old son.Next, Patrick Hennessey tells Jim Fleming about his war service in Iraq and Afghanistan and the role that books played in his life as a soldier. His memoir is The Junior Officers Reading Club. Then, Timothy Ryback is a Holocaust scholar and cofounder of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in Paris. He's also the author of Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life. Ryback tells Steve Paulson the shocking truth that the two books that most influenced Hitler's thinking were American.And finally, Amitav Ghosh was born in India and educated in Delhi and at Oxford. He's the author of many award winning novels, as well as non-fiction and essays. The first book in is new trilogy is Sea of Poppies. Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in the Oxford English Dictionary. And he reads sections from his book. [Broadcast Date: October 20, 2010] Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/101020/rt_tbon_101020_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Histoire et nationalisme dans les romans d'Amitav Ghosh
La contribution d'Amitav Ghosh à la fiction anglaise indienne donne toute latitude pour méditer sur le scénario social qui l'entoure, ce qui est une grande chose de la part d'un auteur. Les concepts importants d'"histoire" et de "nationalisme" sont les thèmes majeurs de la littérature postcoloniale, en particulier dans le contexte indien. Les romans de Ghosh reflètent ces questions de manière proéminente. Amitav Ghosh étant une figure importante de la fiction indienne contemporaine en anglais, il faut lire sa contribution cruciale à la littérature. Les auteurs ont tenté avec dextérité d'analyser les points de vue de Ghosh et de les présenter de manière méthodologique. Il est également utile pour un nouveau venu dans la littérature anglaise indienne d'avoir des idées sur des terminologies critiques comme l'histoire et le nationalisme qui ont été systématiquement présentées dans le chapitre d'introduction. En outre, la lecture analytique de ses romans tels que The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace et The Hungry Tide a été effectuée systématiquement à la lumière de deux concepts critiques tels que l'histoire et le nationalisme, ce qui permettra de consolider la compréhension des nouveaux chercheurs, des universitaires et des étudiants.- Shop: buecher
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The Nutmeg's Curse
One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around a group of small volcanic islands east of Java, known as the Banda Islands, As the nutmeg made its way across the known world, they became immensely valuable - in 16th century Europe, just a handful could buy a house, It was not long before European traders became conquerors, and the indigenous Bandanese communities - and the islands themselves - would pay a high price for access to this precious commodity, Yet the bloody fate of the Banda Islands forewarns of a threat to our present day, Amitav Ghosh argues that the nutmeg's violent trajectory from its native islands is revealing of a wider colonial mindset which justifies the exploitation of human life and the natural environment, and which dominates geopolitics to this day, Written against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, and interweaving discussions on everything from climate change, the migrant crisis, and the animist spirituality of indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg's Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society, and reveals the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces,- Shop: buecher
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The First World War Adventures Of Nariman Karkaria (eBook, ePUB)
Amazing! An astonishing find! - AMITAV GHOSHNariman Karkaria, a young Parsi from Gujarat, had always wanted to see the world. So he left home as a teenager with fifty rupees in his pocket to do just that. After working in Hong Kong and Peking for a few years, in 1914, when war was in the air, he decided to volunteer for the British Army. Passing through China, Manchuria, Siberia, Russia and Scandinavia, he reached London early in 1915 and managed to register as a private with the 24th Middlesex Regiment. He was now a Tommy.Incredibly, Karkaria saw action on three major fronts in the next three years. In 1916, he was in the trenches at the Battle of the Somme. After convalescing from an injury, he was sent off to the Middle Eastern Front where he fought in the Battle of Jerusalem in 1917. He was then transferred to the Balkan Front in 1918, where he served in Salonika. After being discharged, he returned to India and wrote a book in Gujarati about his years of travel and adventure, which was published in 1922.Karkaria's war memoir is truly one of a kind. And in Murali Ranganathan's brilliant translation, this astonishing story comes alive with rare immediacy and vigour.- Shop: buecher
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Pod (eBook, ePUB)
'Laline Paull succeeds splendidly in rising to the most important literary challenge of our time - restoring voice and agency to other-than-human beings' Amitav GhoshBestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies - that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race.Ea has always felt like an outsider. She suffers from a type of deafness that means she cannot master the spinning rituals that unite her pod of spinner dolphins. When tragedy strikes her family and Ea feels she is partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave.As Ea ventures into the vast, she discovers dangers everywhere, from lurking predators to strange objects floating in the water. But just as she is coming to terms with her solitude, a chance encounter with a group of arrogant bottlenoses will irrevocably alter the course of her life.In her terrifying, propulsive novel, Laline Paull explores the true meaning of family, belonging, sacrifice - the harmony and tragedy of the pod - within an ocean that is no longer the sanctuary it once was, and which reflects a world all too recognisable to our own.PRAISE FOR THE BEES 'Beautifully written and unusual . . . A brave and original story that highlights our modern environmental crimes, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the intricacies of bee world' Sunday Times 'One wild ride. A sensual, visceral mini-epic about timeless rituals and modern environmental disaster. Paull's heart-pounding novel wrenches us into a new world' Emma Donoghue '[A] gripping Cinderella/Arthurian tale with lush Keatsian adjectives' Margaret Atwood 'An extraordinary feat of imagination' Madeline Miller- Shop: buecher
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