In a recent interview to an Italian newspaper, the writer spoke about covid-19, climate change, and how literature can make sense of our changing world.
An exclusive English translation Capitalism, imperialism and the “politics of attrition". How have these world-systems influenced the crises we are experiencing?
What do the climate crisis, the pandemic and the migration crisis have in common? And what is the role of literature in the face of these realities?
Amitav Ghosh, award-winning Indian writer, answers these and other questions in the following interview. In Ghosh’s latest novel, Gun Island, published in 2019 by Penguin Random House, the story interweaves the unstable reality in which we are living, a reality of climate disruption