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Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement (Hardcover, 2016, University of Chicago Press) 4 stars

"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well …

read in 2020, a literature and story focus more than Nutmeg's Curse

4 stars

Wonderfully sharp and lucid climate critique of fiction and global capitalism. Through modern literature's failure to face or grapple with climate change, he weaves the blindspots of the western novel's individual moral narrative, the role of empire in partitioning the world's industrialization growth and infeasibility of replicating western economic exploitation for the colonized masses, and the compartmentalizing of politics to no longer allow any sense of collective or commonweal.