GHOST-EYE
“Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a “case of the reincarnation type.”
Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can’t understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked fish with a different mother.
Perplexed, the Guptas turn to Dr. Shoma Bose, a psychiatrist who has been investigating what are known as ‘cases of the reincarnation type’ for years. But her understanding of the world is changed forever by Varsha’s revelations.
Half a century later, Varsha’s therapeutic case file catches the attention of a group of environmental activists, and Shoma’s nephew Dinu is drawn inexorably into their plans. And as Dinu finds himself caught up in the search for Varsha, buried memories of his own past begin to surface.
Travelling between late-sixties Calcutta and present-day Brooklyn, Ghost-Eye is an urgent and expansive novel from one of our greatest living storytellers, about family, fate and our fragile planet.”
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- New Delhi: January 5, 6:00 pm, India International Centre (with Keshava Guha).
- Mumbai: January 8, 6:30 pm, Royal Opera House (with Raghu Karnad and Literature Live!).
- Bengaluru: January 9, 6:30 pm, Bangalore International Centre (with Anjum Hasan).
- Chennai: January 11, 6:30 pm, FICCI FLO/Rotary Club (with Tishani Doshi).
- Goa: January 17, 6:00 pm, Literati Bookshop, Calangute, book signing.
- Kolkata: January 25, Kolkata Literary Meet (with Malavika Banerjee).
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AMITAV GHOSH grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books of non-fiction, two collections of essays and nine novels. His books have won many prizes and he has received eight honorary degrees, six lifetime achievement awards and four honorary fellowships. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and he has served on the Jury of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. In 2018 he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award. In 2019, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade. In 2024 he was awarded the Erasmus Prize and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2025 he was awarded the Pak Kyongni Prize by South Korea’s Toji Foundation. He is married to the writer Deborah Baker and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
