Junot Diaz in The New York Times:
The term “one of a kind” gets bandied about in the arts quite a lot but the writer Amitav Ghosh not only deserves the encomium, he could function as a handy benchmark for assessing whether others merit it. Call it the Ghosh Minimum. If an artist is as arrestingly original and as bad-ass multivalent as Ghosh — sui generis. If not — ejusdem generis, like the rest of us.
Transnational and translingual, with a planet-spanning curiosity, Ghosh is a synthesist of the highest order, able to weave big, genre-bending ideas, vast sweeps of History and nuanced characterizations into compulsively readable narratives. He consistently centers voices and communities erased by Empire — that rare decolonial writer who grapples nimbly with small tender things and hyperobjects alike, without subducting either.
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