01759cam a2200289 4500 607498232 TxAuBib 20210120120000.0 190904s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780374167394 hardcover $27.00 0374167397 hardcover $27.00 TxAuBib Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-, author. Gun Island / Amitav Ghosh. First American edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. ©2019. 313 pages ; 24 cm. "Originally published in 2019 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain."--Title page verso. A dealer of rare books, Dr. Deen Datta is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of growing up in today's world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey that will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him. 20210120. Booksellers and bookselling Fiction. East Indian Americans Fiction. Self-realization Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) Fiction. TXMIT