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River of smoke in 2011, flood of fire in 2012, the great derangement in 2016, the calcutta chromosome in 1995 and gun island in 2019. Characters from both previous books reappear, along with new characters. Alice albinia, financial times about the author amitav ghosh was born in calcutta in 1956. In september 1838 a storm blows up on the indian ocean and the.
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