{"id":31412,"date":"2026-02-25T01:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31412"},"modified":"2026-02-25T01:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:59:38","slug":"indian-author-amitav-ghosh-publishes-first-novel-in-7-years-why-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=31412","title":{"rendered":"Indian author Amitav Ghosh publishes first novel in 7 years. Why so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It is seven years since Indian author Amitav Ghosh last published a novel.<\/p>\n

For many readers, he is a fiction writer best known for The Glass Palace<\/em> (2000) and his Ibis trilogy comprising Sea of Poppies<\/em> (2008), River of Smoke<\/em> (2011) and Flood of Fire<\/em> (2015). These are set against historically accurate moments during the British Empire, but are works of imagination. Like his readers, he says he thinks of himself as \u201cprimarily a novelist\u201d.<\/p>\n

In more recent years, however, he has focused on non-fiction. He has written about climate change (The Great Derangement<\/em>, 2016), the environmental ravages of imperial greed (The Nutmeg\u2019s Curse,<\/em> 2021), the opioid crisis<\/span> (Smoke and Ashes<\/em>, 2023) and the factual aftermath of, again, colonial greed (Wild Fictions<\/em>, a book of essays published in 2025).<\/div>\n

With his new novel, Ghost-Eye<\/em>, he has returned to his literary roots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was desperate to get back to fiction,\u201d he explains in an email from his home in New York. \u201cAnd, luckily for me, an interesting story happened to come into my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The cover of Amitav Ghosh\u2019s new book, Ghost-Eye.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At the story\u2019s core is a three-year-old girl who begins to recall her past life as a fisherwoman. But Ghosh is wary of the word \u201creincarnation\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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