Amitav Ghosh Tackles Climate Change And Migration In ‘Gun Island’
Editor's Note: A fiction spanning over years, Gun Island, written by Amitav Ghosh follows the journey of Deen Dutta, a dealer of rare books, whose quiet world is turned upside down as a strange turn of events makes him embark on a journey from India to Los Angeles, via Venice. Weaving old folklores with modern-day adventures, Ghosh again tries to draw readers attention towards climate change, as he did in his previous book, The Great Derangement and many others. Gun Island has some remarkable women characters too and with…