loppear reviewed Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
powerfully improbable through an appropriate lens
4 stars
Ghosh's non-fiction "The Great Derangement" explores the role of literary fiction in dealing with climate and colonialism, and the modern novel's turn to telling stories about the individually inwardly probable vs our condition of surprising and irrational experiences of nature and disaster. "Gun Island" is his response on climate and desperate migration, with increasingly improbable coincidence and unease challenging the protagonist's grip on scientific realism.
Ghosh's non-fiction "The Great Derangement" explores the role of literary fiction in dealing with climate and colonialism, and the modern novel's turn to telling stories about the individually inwardly probable vs our condition of surprising and irrational experiences of nature and disaster. "Gun Island" is his response on climate and desperate migration, with increasingly improbable coincidence and unease challenging the protagonist's grip on scientific realism.