- Biography, Jewish merchants, Slaves, Travel
Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents.
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Prestige, contemplative, grave and open-ended.
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- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Amitav Ghosh
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 393
- Publisher
- In association with Penguin Books, Distributed by Orient Longman, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781862071209
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“I FIRST BEGAN to dream of Cairo in the evenings, as I sat in my room, listening, while Abu-'Ali berated his wife or shouted at some unfortunate customer who had happened to incur his displeasure while making purchases at his shop.”
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