Incendiary Circumstances A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956 and raised and educated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, Egypt, India, and the United Kingdom, where he received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford. Acclaimed for fiction, travel writing, and journalism, his books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, and Dancing in Cambodia. His previous novel, The Glass Palace, was an international bestseller that sold more than a half-million copies in Britain. Recently published there, The Hungry Tide has been sold for translation in twelve foreign countries and is also a bestseller abroad. Ghosh has won France"s Prix Medici Etranger, India"s prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He now divides his time between Harvard University,where he is a visiting professor, and his homes in India and Brooklyn, New York.Ghosh, Amitav is the author of 'Incendiary Circumstances A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times', published 2007 under ISBN 9780618872213 and ISBN 0618872213.