A public book discussion of ?In an Antique Land? by Amitav Ghosh will be held on Wednesday, October 29 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the Peter White Public Library Shiras Room. This is part of a monthly book discussion series in the library?s Muslim Journeys/Bridging Cultures program. All are welcome. Free. For more information, call Cathy at 226-4309 or visit the reference desk on the 2nd floor.
Part memoir, part detective story, part traveler’s tale, and part work of history, ?In an Antique Land? moves back and forth between the author?s experience living in the Nile Delta and his reconstruction of a Jewish trader and his slave’s lives in the eleventh century. In the 1980s Amitav Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coop on the roof of a house in a tiny village in Egypt. During the day he poured over medieval letters sent to India from Cairo by Arab merchants. In the evenings he wrote stories based on what he had seen in the village. This book is the story of Ghosh’s relationship with the village community. Mixing conversation and research, imagination and scholarship, it is also a history of the special relationship between Egypt and India through nearly ten centuries.
Born in Calcutta, Ghosh is a world-famous novelist best known for his work in English fiction. He lives in New York.
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