Author: Amitav Ghosh Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Adventure, Award winners, Science fiction, Mystery, Thriller Culture: India
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ISBNs: 9780380813940 0380813947 |
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From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers 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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