Synopsis
|
A
novel of Fevers,
Delirium &
Discovery.
In the
not-too-distant
future, Antar, a
computer-bound
Egyptian clerk in
New York City,
accidentally
unearths the
abandoned ID card
of an old
colleague, L.
Mrugan.
Antar remembers
him as the man who
described himself
as the world
authority on
Ronald Ross, a
Nobel-winning
scientist who
solved the
'malaria puzzle'
in Calcutta in
1898.
As the mystery
unravels, Antar
discovers the
strange truth of
what happened in
the tropical
laboratory of
Ronald Ross in the
1890's, a truth in
which events of
the past, present
and future all
play a mysterious
part. |
Review
|
Winner
of the Arthur c
Clarke Award
'An
extremely
ingenious novel
... The
Calcutta
Chromosome
combines the
suspense of a
Victorian
melodrama with the
fascination of a
scientific
thriller'
Guardian
'With its
dazzling and
haunting mix of
science fiction,
the history of
malaria research,
thriller, ghost
story and
postcolonial
allegory, Amotav
Ghosh's The
Calcutta
Chromosome is
wonderfully clever
as well as a good
read'
New Statesman |
