download
close

Gun Island: A Novel

₹ 538

₹ 699 23% OFF You save ₹161

7 Million + Happy Customers

100% Original Products

32 Points Quality Check

Gun Island: A Novel

₹ 538

₹ 699 23% OFF You save ₹161
  • 32 Quality Checks
  • Spine
  • Inside
  • Overall : These are new books which directly come from the supplier.

For every 100 Spent,
You earn 1 Bookchor Coins

Highlights

  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 9780670089161

    ISBN
  • 160 mm

    Width
  • 242 mm

    Height
  • 524 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 25 mm

    Spine Width

Check Delivery

Enter pincode for exact delivery dates / charges and to know if express delivery is available

    Bookchor Assured

    100% Genuine books.

    The books that you get are completely genuine. The genuinity of the publication and authenticity of the books are individually checked. You will never receive a pirated product.

    Maximum Quality assured

    New books are crisp and fresh just like the ones that you handpick from the physical stores. You will not find a single smudge or scratch even though the book travels all over India for delivery. Even second hand books retain their highest quality.

    Get what you see.

    We take great care in delivering you the perfect book that you see on the website. Book cover, number of pages and book dimensions are exactly the same as mentioned in the book description . For used books we categorize them into ‘Almost New’, ‘Good, and ‘Readable’ - even the ‘readable’ books are of high quality.

    Honest discounts.

    We do not offer discounts just to attract you. The prices of the books are not falsely hiked to lure you into the greed of discounts. We offer flat discounts on MRP. The discount sales run throughout the year.

    Description

    From The Award-winning Author Of The Bestselling Epic Ibis Trilogy Comes A Globetrotting, Folkloric Adventure Novel About Family And Heritage

    Bundook. Gun. A Common Word, But One That 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 That Will Upend Everything He Thought He Knew About Himself, About The Bengali Legends Of His Childhood, And About The World Around Him.

    Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island Is A Beautifully Realized Novel That 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.

    From The Award-winning Author Of The Bestselling Epic Ibis Trilogy Comes A Globetrotting, Folkloric Adventure Novel About Family And HeritageBundook. Gun. A Common Word, But One That 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...  Read More

    About the Author

    Add authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

    Amitav Ghosh

    Amitav Ghosh is one of Indias best-known writers. His books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, The Hungry Tide. His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

    Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986.

    The Circle of Reason won the Prix Medicis Etranger, one of Frances top literary awards, and The Shadow Lines won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar. The Calcutta Chromosome won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for 1997 and The Glass Palace won the Grand Prize for Fiction at the Frankfurt International e-Book Awards in 2001. The Hungry Tide won the Hutch Crossword Book Prize in 2006. In 2007 Amitav Ghosh was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Turin, Italy. Amitav Ghosh has written for many publications, including the Hindu, The New Yorker and Granta, and he has served on the juries of several international film festivals, including Locarno and Venice. He has taught at many universities in India and the USA, including Delhi University, Columbia, the City University of New York and Harvard. He no longer teaches and is currently writing the next volume of the Ibis Trilogy.

    He is married to the writer, Deborah Baker, and has two children, Lila and Nayan. He divides his time between Kolkata, Goa and Brooklyn.

    Rating & Reviews

    3.7

    506 total
    5
    0
    4
    0
    3
    0
    2
    0
    0

    ₹ 538

    ₹ 69923% OFF