Book Review: Gun Island written by Amitav Ghosh

Kritish Rajbhandari

Kritish Rajbhandari

Palavras-chave: English

Resumo

Gun Island abounds in extraordinary and inexplicable weather events that are becoming increasingly common around the world. Such events take the center stage as the narrative moves across time and space, connecting storms in the Sundarbans to fires in California and tornadoes and floods in Venice, and at the same time linking the adventures of a seventeenth-century Bengali merchant traveling between the Bay of Bengal and the Mediterranean to the struggles of the present-day migrants making dangerous journeys to Europe.

Biografia do Autor

Kritish Rajbhandari

Kritish Rajbhandari is Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University. His dissertation "Anarchival Drift and the Limits of Community in Indian Ocean Fiction" won the American Comparative Literature Association's Charles Bernheimer Prize for Best Dissertation Award in 2020. An article based on this project is forthcoming in the journal Comparative Literature. His writing has also been published in Research in African Literatures. Kritish translates poetry from Nepal Bhasa to English, some of which have appeared in the journal La.Lit published from Kathmandu, Nepal.

Referências

Ghosh, Amitav. Gun Island. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
---. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. The University of Chicago Press, 2016.