The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

by Amitav Ghosh

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Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.

The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022652681X

ISBN13:9780226526812

Release Date:July 2017

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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