Summary of Dancing in Cambodia and Other Essays
THE BOOK
Through extraordinary first-hand accounts Amitav Ghosh presents a compelling
chronicle of the turmoil of our times. ‘The Town by the Sea’ records his
experiences in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days
after the tsunami; and in ‘September 11’ he takes us back to that fateful day
when he retrieved his young daughter from school in New York, sick with the
knowledge that she will be marked by the same kind of tumult that has defined
his own life. ‘Dancing in Cambodia’ recreates the first-ever visit to Europe by
a troupe of Cambodian dancers with King Sisowath, in 1906. ‘Stories in Stones’
considers the iconic significance of Angkor Wat, reputedly the largest religious
edifice in the world, as a symbol of Cambodian identity and Amitav Ghosh sets
out to uncover stories, new and old, associated with the historic monument. ‘At
Large in Burma’, written after the author’s visits to the country in 1995– 96,
provides a window to one of the world’s most closed societies. Ghosh interviewed
Aung San Suu Kyi, the personification of Burma’s democratic struggle, and also
visited the camps of one of Burma’s many minorities fighting for independence,
the Karenni.
THE AUTHOR
Amitav Ghosh is one of the most widely known Indians writing in English
today; his works include The Shadow Lines (Sahitya Akademi Award), The Calcutta
Chromosome (Arthur C. Clarke Award), The Glass Palace
(Grand Prize for Fiction, Frankfurt International e-Book Awards), The Hungry
Tide (Best Work in English Fiction, Hutch Crossword Book Award) and Sea of
Poppies (Best Work in English Fiction, Vodafone Crossword Book Award, and
shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize).
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