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Testo di assaggio

Amitav Ghosh
In An Antique Land

Also by Amitav Ghosh
The Circle of Reason
The Shadow Lines
The Calcutta Chromosome
The Glass Palace
The Hungry Tide
Sea of Poppies
River of Smoke

Amitav Ghosh
In An Antique Land
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books 1992

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Contents
Prologue 11
Lataifa 21
Nashawy 107
Mangalore 239
Going Back 289
Epilogue 343
Notes 355

Prologue
The SLAVE of MS H.6 first stepped upon the stage of modern
history in 1942. His was a brief debut, in the obscurest of
...command of Erwin Rommel, were encamped a bare forty miles
from the city, waiting for their orders for the final push into
Egypt, and in the city itself the soldiers of the British Eighth
Army were still arriving—from every corner of the world: India,
Australia, South Africa, Britain and America. That summer,
while the fates of the two armies hung in the balance,
Alexandria was witness to the last, most spectacular, burst of
cosmopolitan gaiety for which the city was once famous.
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