The Book of Fire: Christy Lefteri

Published by Manilla Press, 2023, 341 pages. “This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so did I. I left him.“I left him, and now he may be dead. I can see him clearly, exactly as he was this morning, sitting beneath the ancient tree, his eyes …

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Gun Island: Amitav Ghosh

Published by Penguin Hamish Hachette / John Murray, 2019, 320 pages.Review by Imran Ali Khan Amitav Ghosh’s new book, Gun Island (Penguin, Random House), has come to us three years since his last book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, where Ghosh contemplates the dangers of climate change, “At exactly the time when …

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