From Victorian India to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes listeners on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life.
When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.
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"Engrossing, it had a lot of information to take in. It gets you involved. Its story was decently connected, really liked the "Lakhaan" stories. Kind of wish that the ending of the book didn't make me feel like I needed to know what happens next. " — Vickked (4 out of 5 stars)
"Engrossing, it had a lot of information to take in. It gets you involved. Its story was decently connected, really liked the "Lakhaan" stories. Kind of wish that the ending of the book didn't make me feel like I needed to know what happens next. "
" Started this with great hopes, but it never picked up, and the ending... The ending goes along with the concept, I suppose. "
" different form most of ghosh's novels, this one alternates between the past and present, in search of the documents leading up to the cause of malaria. the pcae is exciting, but did find the conclusion raher of an anti-climax "
" My first Amitav Ghosh book - decent narrative style of weaving multiple simultaneous stories from different time periods around the same theme. Keeps introducing new characters, but it becomes one too many quite quickly. Good imagination with the storyline. "
" When I read this book, I understood why Ghosh is such a big deal. It's masterfully done and a brilliant topic. "
" Maybe sci-fi, maybe a ghost story. "
" What if quantum leaps of knowledge were passed on from one century to the other by an external agent - a Calcutta chromosome. "
Amitav Ghosh is the multiaward–winning author of books of fiction and nonfiction. He has won France’s Prix Medici Etranger, India’s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize, among others.
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.
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