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Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!
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Blurb: “THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME
"Intricate, intelligent and exceptionally inventive, with staccato bursts of startling writing a truly fresh and original novel by an exceptional writer."
-Peter Mathiessen
"Ingenious and bewitching...a rich and satisfying novel."
- The London Times Literary Supplement
"Well-crafted, intelligent, and wildly inventive. To the medical mayhem add a dash of ancient goddess cults, ominous rituals involving bloodletting in an abandoned mansion, ghost trains and transmigrating souls, you have an irresistible brew that must be drained to the last drop."
• The Gazette, Montreal
"An extremely ingenious novel about malaria research, oriental religion, and computer science. With its frame tale of a...computer operator in New York, looking for clues to events a century before in India, The Calcutta Chromosome combines the suspense of Victorian melodrama with the fascination of a scientific thriller."
- The Guardian
"Ghosh has brilliantly succeeded in combining the past and the future in a dazzling novel that is part mystery, part scientific quest and altogether wonderful.
The Calcutta Chromosome lingers and haunts long after the final page is turned."
—Ed McBain
"A marvelous read, with both the forward pulse of a true mystery and the time dissolving poetry of dreams."
—K.W. Jeter
"Complex and enthralling... The Calcutta Chromosome cunningly examines the proposition that there is more to heaven, earth and our body's deep tissue than is dreamt of by Western science..."
- The Sunday Times, London
"With its dazzling and haunting mix of science fiction, the history of malaria research, thriller, ghost story and postcolonial allegory, Amitav Ghosh's new novel is-like his previous work-wonderfully clever as well as a good read."
- New Statesman”
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