Book Review: ‘Ghost-Eye,’ by Amitav Ghosh

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Amitav Ghosh's new novel "Ghost-Eye" weaves together a puzzling case involving a girl in Calcutta with the broader climate crisis, creating an ambitious if somewhat unwieldy narrative. The book attempts to bridge personal mystery and global environmental catastrophe, drawing connections across time and geography. Ghosh, known for his sprawling historical fiction, uses the girl's story as an entry point to examine how climate change reshapes human experience and perception. The novel's ambition occasionally outpaces its execution, the reviewer suggests, packing in too many threads for the narrative to fully integrate. Yet the core insight, linking intimate human drama to planetary-scale catastrophe, remains compelling and timely.