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In the following review, Baker offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome.
The existence of “research luck” has been often remarked; a serendipitous book almost leaps from t...
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In the following review, Hulse offers a negative assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome, criticizing the characters' grating slang dialogue and the improbability of the plot.
Immortality has not...
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In the following review, Chew offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome.
With its dazzling and haunting mix of science fiction, the history of malaria research, thriller, ghost story and...
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In the following review, Sen offers a positive assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome.
The Calcutta Chromosome is Amitav Ghosh's fourth substantial work of prose. He has already written two nove...
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In the following positive review, Panosian discusses the scientific aspects of The Calcutta Chromosome.
“Murugan sat suddenly upright, the sweat pounding off his face, not sure whether he was s...
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In the following essay, Kumar analyzes the reception to and importance of Indian writers who write in English, using Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chro...
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In the following review, Todd offers a negative assessment of The Calcutta Chromosome, faulting the plot elements as underdeveloped and incohesive.
Last summer, in a special Indian fiction issue of Th...
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In the following review, Rosenberg argues that although The Calcutta Chromosome is an excellent fiction novel, it fails as a science-fiction novel due to its lack of scientific concreteness.
Amitav Gh...
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Critical Review by Phil Baker
