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Original Title: In an Antique Land
ISBN: 0679727833 (ISBN13: 9780679727835)
Edition Language: English
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In an Antique Land Paperback | Pages: 400 pages
Rating: 3.83 | 2689 Users | 238 Reviews

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Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors.

Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

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Title:In an Antique Land
Author:Amitav Ghosh
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 400 pages
Published:March 29th 1994 by Vintage (first published 1993)
Categories:History. Nonfiction. Travel. Northern Africa. Egypt. Cultural. India. Autobiography. Memoir

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'In an Antique Land` is a remarkable book. I would say it is one of the best books by Ghosh. It is a story of Ghosh's research that takes him from England to various obscure places in Egypt. So what we see in the book is how he navigates these places, whom he meets, what sort of conversations he has and so forth. As a reader, I feel transplanted in the Egyptian countryside. This part, which reads like a brilliant travelogue, is highly entertaining as well as informative especially in regard to

I actually didn't care much for the history part (the slaves and all), what I enjoy the most in this book was the part where the author recounted his stay in Egypt. It sure was terribly awkward (and amusing, to me) to be a Hindu Indian in a rural Muslim village. Do you burn your dead in India? (villagers recoil from you with horror)Do the Indians not circumcise themselves? (villagers looking at you strangely)Do you really worship cows in India? (villagers laughing at you)Imagine having to deal

In an Antique land for me was a very different experience...It was the first time I read a journal/memoir kind of non fictional account of an author's travels. I started out expecting some really good medeival tales from Ben Yiju and the slave but it was Ghosh's own experiences in Egypt that proved more intriguing and better to me. This is my first Amitav Ghosh book and I really didn't know it was non fiction until I was 30 pages into it. By then I found it really informative and I thought what

This is a very touching travelogue of the time that Ghosh spent living in a small Egyptian village on the cusp of modernity during the early 1980s, as well as his return there at the end of that decade. There is also a parallel narrative based on a historical Arab Jewish trader whose life he tries to piece together, but I found this less compelling. If it can be appropriate to describe a book as being warm and kind, those would be the most apt words to describe this one. The villagers that Ghosh

I would rate this book as perhaps the most important book I have read in my life. Top five or 10 at least. Not least because it creates a new genre -- we have yet to give it a name. But most importantly it struggles to arrive at how "temporal displacement" is not merely some theoretical device invented by tenuring academics, but rather something that everyday people in the 3rd world actually feel and experience. Not least because it demonstrates the power of the archive; the ability of the West

I found this book rather underwhelming. I was keen to really learn a great deal about the relationship among the countries that enjoyed centuries of trade across the Indian ocean, especially modern-day India, Yemen, and Egypt. The movement back and forth between Ghosh's travels in Egypt and the historical material he found from the Cairo Geniza was quite intriguing and I was willing to overlook the fact that these two parts of his story were quite disjointed. I kept expecting them to be tied

No where near the best from Amitav, yet eminently readable because the immaculate research and the prose so typical of him. He is one of the few who can come up with subtly remarkable criticism of the west: " Unable to compete in the Indian Ocean trade by purely commercial means, the Europeans were bent on taking control of it by aggression, pure and distilled, by unleashing violence on a scale unprecedented on those shores". He goes on to state further: " the determination of a small, united