In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

In An Antique Land by Amitav GhoshIn an Antique Land is the story of two Indians in Egypt: Bomma, a slave brought there by his Jewish master who came to India in the twelfth century, and Amitav Ghosh, who finds himself tracing Bomma's story in 1980. Interspersing his quest with accounts of his stay in 'Masr' and the people he met, Ghosh weaves together a narrative packed with exuberant detail, exposing ties that have bound together India and Egypt, and Hindus and Muslims and Jews,

The result is a deeply humane

'It's the arrogance of men to think so little of women

an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys prison

Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there

bleak mountains of Tywyd

As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers

'O let them be left

secret conspiracy

in Nepalese History

Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse

Their relevance in the modern times cannot be doubted and they continue to guide people to living an orderly and ideal life

by the King