Amitav Ghosh?

[ish mailian]

Thanks so much!!

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:25 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On that postcolonial vibe... I'm reading Amos Tutuola's My Life in the
> Bush of Ghosts and it's goddamn magnificent. Would put it on the same
> shelf as 1001 Arabian Nights, Salman Rushdie's stuff, maybe even
> Ishmael Reed and John Barthes, but the style really is all on its own.
> Written in a kind of pidgin English that some writers disparaged as
> playing up to Anglo stereotypes of African writers but which Nigerian
> commentators have said is an incredibly assured and deliberate
> literary strategy. It's such a good read. Very short too.
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 12:10 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks very much. I am interested in all genres, to answer a question
> posed,
> > but in this query I was merely hoping for direction, suggestions. I do
> hope
> > to read about Indian soldiers in the British Army, and also see how this
> > experience is akin to the Irish.
> >
> > Reading Ireland and Postcolonial Theory with Afterword by Edward Said,
> > Edited by Carroll and Patricia King. Many parallels of the Irish and
> Indians
> > are presented in the essays and Ghosh is cited several times.
> >
> > I've been reading a bit more from India and Indians in in the Americas
> and
> > how the Irish, Irish in the Americas experience may be compared and/or
> > contrasted. I am also interested in Latin American Literature,
> especially,
> > of course, Literature from Brasil.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Dec 29, 2015, at 6:33 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > want to read one novel. any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Amitov Ghosh has written several goodies of historical fiction,  but The
> >> Ibis Trilogy, is far and away the best.  I’d say go ahead and read book
> 1,
> >> Sea of Poppies, and see what you think.  It’s  "about” the set-up for
> the
> >> 1st Opium War in the Calcutta- River Ganges and there’s a chunk which
> takes
> >> place on an island in the Indian Ocean.  This one was short-listed for
> the
> >> Booker Prize.  Book 2, River of Smoke - keeps the story going into the
> Opium
> >> War,  is almost as good - but I kind of fell down on book 3,  Flood of
> Fire,
> >> which develops the war itself,  because a several years had passed
> between
> >> readings and the story continues.  But all three have won their own
> awards
> >> and lots and lots of excellent reviews.
> >>
> >> Bek
> >
> >
>
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