THE CALCUTTA CHROMOSOME
A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award

In this extraordinary novel, Amitav Ghosh navigates through time and genres to present a unique tale. Beginning at an unspecified time in the future and ranging back to the late nineteenth century, the reader follows the adventures of the enigmatic L. Murugan. An authority on the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Ronald Ross, who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898, Murugan is in search of the elusive ‘Calcutta Chromosome’.

With its astonishing range of characters, advanced computer science, religious cults and wonderful portraits of Victorian and contemporary India, The Calcutta Chromosome expands the scope of the novel as we know it, as Amitav Ghosh takes on the avatar of a science thriller writer.

Praise for the book

‘The Calcutta Chromosome is a compressed masterpiece that further consolidates Amitav Ghosh’s premiership in contemporary Indian writing in English.’ —Biblio

‘Ghosh frolics with breathtaking intensity and variety to produce a novel like none other in the Indo-Anglian shelf . . . This book is an amazing amalgam of many things, a very impressive display of scholarship, narrative skills, and complex plotting . . . Ghosh achieves a peculiarly haunting quality.’ —Outlook

›	Published by	:	Penguin Books India
›	Published	:	February 2008
›	Imprint	:	Viking/ Ravi Dayal Publisher
›	Special Price	:	Rs 395.00
›	Cover Price	:	Rs 395.00
›	ISBN13	:	9780670081899
›	Edition	:	Hardback
›	Format	:	Demy
›	Extent	:	272 pp
›	Classification	:	Fiction
›	Rights	:	India, Nepal and Bhutan only