Gun Island: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “With sweeping exuberant style and extraordinary linguistic facility…this important novel is an account of our current world, the one few writers have had the courage to face.”

  — Annie Proulx, New York Times bestselling author

• “A Bengali Da Vinci Code…Gun Island is a book of reckless and persuasive scope, a huge, rambunctious reckoning with our environmental declension.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “Tales of escapology, of deprivation and persecution, of impossible yearnings for a new world that bring us, inexorably, to the terrified refugees on the Mediterranean. Which is, perhaps, Ghosh’s essential point.”

  — The Guardian (London)

• “Amitav Ghosh…wants literature to explore the environment as much as it does other crises.”

  — New York Times

• “Flitting across continents, Ghosh deftly summons up a pungent sense of place, whether in the mangrove swamps of Bengal or the misty, cobbled streets of Venice.”

  — The Times (London)

• “Deals with two of the biggest issues of the current moment: climate change and human migration. But it’s not homework…[it’s] a good, old-fashioned diversion around these particular poles…A book unafraid of ideas can be bracing.”

  — Washington Post

• “With the melodic cadence of South Asian-accented English, Sagar Arya narrates this mystical novel…Arya provides colorful inflections for Deen and his various Asian-American friends who provide critical keys to unlocking the mystery he is pursuing.”

  — AudioFile

• “A modern retelling of a Bengali myth. He believes old legends have a lot to teach us about how to think about the catastrophic effects of climate change.”

  — NPR