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The Calcutta Chromosome
The Calcutta Chromosome
Author: Amitav Ghosh
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 sear...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380794935
ISBN-10: 0380794934
Publication Date: 7/1/1998
Pages: 306
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Publisher: Avon
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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What a convoluted book. Lots of malarial information and history of the discovery of malaria, Indian names, obscure Indian towns, and Indian foods. Also, a lot of names - so many that it confused me who was who. It didn't even get interesting until 30 pages before the end. Lots left unexplained. I don't think the author knew what the plot of the book was.


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