Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery - Hardcover

Ghosh, Amitav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8175300051 ISBN 13: 9788175300057

Publisher: South Asia Books, 1996

Synopsis

A high-tech medical thriller, a scientific quest and a Victorian ghost story - as electrifying as The Hot Zone and as rich in its details as Possession.

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Review:

"A novelist of dazzling ingenuity, Ghosh presents an engrossing tale that is at once a work of science fiction, a medical mystery, and a fascinating history of malaria research.... The plot unfolds like the involution of a hypertext, and the novel's clever subtext, which pits India's age-old wisdom and faith against Western science and England's colonial arrogance, is scintillating." --"San Francisco Chronicle"Ghosh unseams both chronology and distance with a Borgesian flair."--"The New Yorker"A rollicking ride between the past and the future, real and imagined history, science and counterscience."--"Los Angeles Times

From the Publisher:

A novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery
In the not-too-distant future, a computer-bound desk clerk in New York City unearths an abandoned ID card which leads him to investigate the truth of what happened in a tropical laboratory in the 1890s, a truth in which the past, present and future all play a mysterious part. "Devilishly readable" Daily Telegraph; "Ingenious...combines the suspense of a Victorian melodrama with the fascination of a scientific thriller" Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: South Asia Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 8175300051
• ISBN 13: 9788175300057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256