Description
In this personal, wide-ranging meditation, Amitav Ghosh turns to the uneasy gap between what we can imagine and what the environment is actually doing to the world. Moving across literature, criticism, and lived experience, he explores why climate catastrophe can feel “uncanny” or “improbable” to the human mind—and how stories, metaphors, and narrative forms often struggle to represent its true scale. With the novelist’s eye and the critic’s rigor, Ghosh considers the environmental movement not only as a political force, but as a struggle over language, attention, and collective imagination. Part reflection, part argument, this book asks what it would take for our cultural tools to meet the reality of ecological loss.
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paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2021
128 pages
ISBN: 9780141996905
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First Published
2021
Language
eng
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