In an Antique Land

Amitav Ghosh

Vintage

2011

400 páginas

13h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780307792266

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out 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. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.

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O que nos separa é maior do que o que nos divide

Amitav resgata seus personagens no egito e india medieval e nos vilarejos egípcios dos anos 80 do anonimato da história. Ele mostra seus medos e aventuras, para que aprendamos que apesar do.aparente exoticismo estimulado pela colonização europeia, o que nossas semelhanças no terceiro mundo são muito maiores do que as nossas diferenças. Assim como.no.comércio no Oceano Índico medieval, há possibilidade de convivência rica com trocas, misturas e empatia.