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I FIRST BEGAN to dream of Cairo in the evenings, as I sat in my room, listening, while Abu-'Ali berated his wife or shouted at some unfortunate customer who had happened to incur his displeasure while making purchases at his shop.
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- Title In an Antique Land
- Author Ghosh, Amitav.
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Seventh Impressi
- Language ENG
- Publisher Permanent Black, New Delhi, India
- Date May 6, 2000
- ISBN 9788175300408
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New Delhi: Permanent Black / Ravi Dayal, 2000. Trade Paperback. First Indian Paperback Edition. No additional printings listed. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Rear cover has sticker from Giggles Bookshop and three-inch crease at bottom edge. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 393 pages. An ethnography in narrative form. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some imaginary, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell. The book contains two narratives. The first, an anthropological narrative, revolves around two visits made by Ghosh to two villages in the Nile Delta, while he was writing his doctoral dissertation (1980–81) and again a few years later (1988). In the second…
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