{"product_id":"the-great-derangement-climate-change-and-the-unthinkable-paperback","title":"The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmitav Ghosh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre 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 \u003ci\u003eIn an Antique Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmitav Ghosh\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose books include \u003ci\u003eThe Circle of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow Lines\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn An Antique Land\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDancing in Cambodia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Calcutta Chromosome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hungry Tide\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Ibis Trilogy: \u003ci\u003eSea of Poppies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRiver of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlood of Fire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754042949920,"sku":"9780226526812","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cb7caca38cd6dbe5049c04a1600cbcc3.webp?v=1780032167","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-great-derangement-climate-change-and-the-unthinkable-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}