The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
by Ghosh, Amitav
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0380975858
- ISBN 13
- 9780380975853
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About This Item
NY: Avon Books, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. It begins in a near future New York City, when Antar, a low-level programmer and data analyst for a large bureaucratic concern, comes upon the lost and battered I.D. card of a man he once knew--a man who vanished without a trace some where in the teeming excess of Calcutta, India, several years before. Strangely compelled, Antar initiates a search into the facts behind the disappearance of the enigmatic L. Murugan, and is unwittingly drawn into a bizarre alternate history of medical science. Clean copy. Record # 385587
Synopsis
The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1996 English Language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. The book, for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is a medical thriller that dramatizes the adventures of apparently disconnected people who are brought together by a mysterious turn of events. The book is loosely based on the life and times of Sir Ronald Ross, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who achieved a breakthrough in malaria research in 1898.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385587
- Title
- The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
- Author
- Ghosh, Amitav
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0380975858
- ISBN 13
- 9780380975853
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Novels, Novels, , .
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