Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. For years he'd been dreaming of leaving New York and going back to Egypt: of getting out of this musty apartment where all he could see when he looked down the street were boarded-up windows stretching across the fronts of buildings that were almost as empty as his own. Like Pynchon, Ghosh creates a world in which conspiracies, big conspiracies, lurk everywhere." Customer Name 6 Works Cited Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome. He whisked the book away but she already knew something was up. Urmila - A journalist for the same publication as Sonali, she is the one Mangala chooses for her transformation or reincarnation. At this point, a new variant of malaria would emerge and the group's research using the chromosome-transfer technique would advance even further. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Antar - A man in the future who is about to retire. The device was illegal of course, precisely because it was meant for people like him, who worked alone, at home. Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2016. Once she'd wrung the last, meaningless detail out of him, she'd give the object on her screen a final spin, with a bizarrely human smugness, before propelling it into the horizonless limbo of her memory. It brings together three searches: the first is that of an Egyptian clerk, Antar, working … This novel has been described as "a kind of mystery thriller" (India Today). I’ve also read. A blog about Bollywood (Hindi movies), with a smattering of personal observations about books, music and the city of Calcutta Skip to main content Calcutta Chromosome Loosely described, the process of securing this form of immortality is as follows: the disciples of this movement can transfer their chromosomes into another's body, and gradually become that person or take over that person. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. how? Abstract: A computer operator in New York stumbles on information regarding an experiment in 1895 Calcutta to change people. Among other impressive elements of that work is the non-Eurocentric view of world history, with a particular focus on the connections between India and what we still call the Middle East. His family and whole village had been wiped out by a strange epidemic. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2018. Mangala - Cleaning woman at Doctor Cunningham's laboratory, but that's her disguise, she is in reality a Demi God who not only discovered the means of treating syphilis with the Malaria parasite but also found a form of asexual reproduction/reincarnation for humans which kept her and Lutchman alive forever. Find helpful summaries and analyses for every chapter in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta … Silence has its voice and speaks only through its mistress, Mangala. Nonetheless, the book was rescued by Ghosh's masterful storytelling; it was just that there were many storylines that never really joined up. Its Isaac Asimov meets Stephen King meets Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, and goes back and forth between New York City in the future and Calcutta in 1970-1980, and weaves a very interesting tale around the disease Malaria. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 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