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Uncanny and Improbable Events

In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how our collective imaginations fail to grasp the scale of environmental destruction, Amitav Ghosh summons writers and novelists to confront the most urgent story of our times.Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956) is an award-winning novelist and critic whose works have illuminated the shortcomings of prevailing cultural narratives about the climate crisis.

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