Description
Description
Named a most anticipated book of 2026 by Esquire Literary Hub
Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a "case of the reincarnation type."
About the Author
About the Author
Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy, composed of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is also the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement, The Nutmeg's Curse, and Smoke and Ashes. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to win the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Ghost-Eye is a marvel that will ignite a reader's sense of wonder--a masterful novel, at once simple and capacious. Ghosh is one of our finest writers." --Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award-winning author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
"This shape-shifting, time-stitching novel grants us special kinds of double-vision: across eras and between species. Under its spell, Amitav Ghosh helps us begin to live multiple lives--to become aware of the porosity and mystery of being, rather than of its fortifications and frontiers." --Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive? "Ghosh writes with winning panache." --The Times (London) "A thoroughly gratifying return to the full-form novel . . . Always an exceptional storyteller, [Ghosh] brilliantly combines what can be touched and seen with the documented otherworldly . . . Ghosh gifts a magnificent story ready to be believed, appreciated, and celebrated." --Shelf Awareness "Ghosh's fluent novel is rich in its detailed knowledge . . . Ghosh's vision of environmental action taken by ordinary people against corporations is inspiring . . Irresistibly readable." --Kirkus Reviews "An impressive feat." --Publishers Weekly "Amitav Ghosh has done more than any novelist to reimagine the role of fiction in our age of environmental emergency. In Ghost-Eye, he draws the reader from the world we know into a shadow realm of reincarnation and levitation, of talking trees and whispering spirits. Mournful and exhilarating, Ghost-Eye insists that, as its narrator says, 'In order to save the world, we have to remind ourselves of the old ways.'" --Nathaniel Rich, author of Cloudthief and Losing Earth "With swathes of history and science, humor under pressure, mysterious forces, and stunning revelations, Ghosh's provocative tale cues us to the wonders of the planet and spurs us to protest the mad greed and malfeasance fueling the climate crisis." --Booklist "Amitav Ghosh's intellectual panache and serene mastery of form make him one of the last great practitioners of the novel of ideas. Ghost-Eye is the most captivating expression yet of an imagination unfettered by the protocols of the liberal-humanist novel: a novel that explores the very real, if still oddly underexplored, world of the spirit that hundreds of millions of people inhabit simultaneously with its material counterpart." --Pankaj Mishra, author of The World After Gaza and Run and Hide "Metempsychosis, reincarnation--Amitav Ghosh's Ghost-Eye challenges you to believe, and on the way engages you with a gripping story of youth and self-knowledge." --Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Theft and Afterlives "Ghost-Eye is a brilliant return to Ghosh's speculative vein, haunting and liberating as it confronts hierarchies ancient and modern." --Siddhartha Deb, author of The Light at the End of the World and Twilight Prisoners "Ghost-Eye is a well-executed story by one of the greatest novelists of our time. I was most excited to read it." --Nuruddin Farah, author of North of Dawn
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub date:
2026-06-16
Length:
336 pages

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