Briefly Noted: Four Book Reviews Including Amitav Ghosh's "Ghost-Eye"
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The New Yorker
Lightly browned and well buttered. A solid pick from the rack.
Summary
A review of four books: Amitav Ghosh's "Ghost-Eye," a sweeping novel about a girl believed to be a reincarnated soul from a fishing village, whose story connects to modern ecological threats from an energy corporation; along with brief mentions of Ann Patchett's "Whistler," Alan Mikhail's "Newcomers," and Matthew Wolfe's "Fires in the Night."
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThis sweeping novel opens in nineteen-sixties Calcutta, when a three-year-old girl demands to eat fish, shocking her family of Jains.
Disturbed, her parents summon a psychologist, who concludes that she is the reincarnation of a person who grew up in a fishing village in the Sundarban forests, to the southeast.
Fifty years later, an energy corporation announces plans to build a plant in that area, threatening ecological devastation.
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