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Gun Island

Auteur(s): Amitav Ghosh
Narrateur(s): Sagar Arya
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 From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage.


“With sweeping exuberant style and extraordinary linguistic facility, Ghosh takes us into a world where desperate refugees trickle through borders like water from melting ice, but where massing animals find no escapes. Old legends and ancient myths take on new meaning. The difficulties of characters in the Sundarbans begin to appear the world over as the climate becomes a forcing element. Our ordinary lives with air travel, cell phones, friends in distant places, smart-mouth teenagers, life insurance, money and investment concerns intersect with forest fire, flooding, storms. This important novel is an account of our current world, the one few writers have had the courage to face.” ―Annie Proulx, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction


Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down.

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey which will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him.

Gun Island is a beautifully realised novel which effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women. Fantastique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature mondiale
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It felt like I myself was exploring that part of the world and discovering new things.

Loved it !

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I loved this book that opens up several cultures and lifts the curtain on refugee struggles. I will be thinking a lot about the ending for some time to come.

Seeking a legend

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I loved the story, an intellectual mystery weaving together, history, folklore, language, current events and politics. Ghosh is an anthropologist by trade and you can definitely feel that in the writing where he explores the tensions between cosmopolitanism, neo-colonialism, and folk culture.

My one major issue is that the ending does a disservice to the rest of the book. It doesn't fit with the rest of the story. Global systems of violence are too easily dismissed with a simplistic happy ending. Inequalities that he has spent the entire novel exploring are papered over with a overly celebratory and optimistic ending. Finally, similar to the works of many male authors the female characters are there to guide the protagonist and also the plot in a way that feels a little too spoonfed at times. This becomes especially clear at the end. Not only that but lower class male characters are also sacrificed to the plot and the fairy tale ending.

brilliant book

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This is a good story. The narrator is excellent. For me, the most accessible of Ghosh’s novels: it moves along more quickly. The theme of this novel matches well with his recent nonfiction work The Great Derangement.

Good story, Excellent narration

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you'll press play over and over again in anticipation and it will never disappoint you

highly recommended

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