Ghost-Eye: Amitav Ghosh's book on rebirth, regeneration and cycles of life

We are lucky that Ghosh continues to tell stories that are profound, layered and meaningful

Ghost-Eye

by  Amitav Ghosh 

Published by HarperCollins India

336 pages, ₹799 

  If you loved reading The Shadow Lines (1988) and The Hungry Tide (2004), written by Amitav Ghosh, chances are that his latest novel, Ghost-Eye, will blow your mind. He writes, yet again, with deep affection for Calcutta (now Kolkata) and the Sundarbans, and from a moral responsibility to make amends for the ecological harm that human beings have caused.

 

It opens with a deceptively simple premise: What happens when a three-year-old girl, raised in a strictly vegetarian Marwari household in Calcutta of the 1960s, suddenly demands a meal of fish and rice