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Anita and Prabha Sinha Program: Amitav Ghosh—River of Smoke - Chicago Humanities Festival

Amitav Ghosh: River of Smoke Anita and Prabha Sinha Program

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  • ABOUT Amitav Ghosh

    Author Amitav Ghosh's published works include Sea of Poppies (2008), The Circle of Reason (1986), The Shadow Lines (1990), The Calcutta Chromosome (1995), and The Glass Palace (2000). His award-winning novels tell the stories of oppressed opium workers, British families in Calcutta, and a young Indian weaver on the run from the law after being accused of being a terrorist.

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  • ABOUT Victoria Lautman

    Victoria Lautman is the founder, host, and executive-producer of Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman. Prior to conceiving and founding this free, public series, Victoria was a featured host and contributor on Chicago Public Radio for two decades, beginning as a free-lance arts reviewer.

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Click play to listen. Recorded on October 23, 2011.

In 2008, critically acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh dazzled CHF audiences with Sea of Poppies, his captivating, multigenerational tale of the 19th-century opium trade. Now comes River of Smoke, the richly drawn second book in his Ibis trilogy. In conversation with journalist Victoria Lautman, Ghosh discusses his craft and reads from this page-turner three years in the making.

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This program is generously underwritten by Anita and Prabha Sinha.

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  • leaders & thinkers

    Website Amitav Ghosh website

  • related events

    2011 Uchicago Humanities DayThe university's 2011 Humanities Day is Saturday, October 22. Browse the full schedule here.

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    InterviewInterview with Amitav Ghosh

  • online resources

    Man Booker Prize Contemporary British and Irish Fiction Award

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