Amitav Ghosh

<p>Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available outside India.<br><br>Encompassing all of Ghosh's fictional and non-fictional writings to date this book takes a thematic approach which enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies making this book both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the 'postcolonial' in particular its relation to postmodernism.<br><br>Aimed at students and the general reader this book is an ideal introduction to one of contemporary literature's most fascinating writers.</p>