Packed with anecdote and exuberant detail, In an Antique Land provides magical
and intimate insights into Egypt from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. It
exposes the indistinguishable and intertwining ties that bind together India and
Egypt, Hindus and Muslims and Jews.
By combining fiction, history, travel writing and anthropology, to create a
single seamless work of imagination, Ghosh characteristically makes us rethink
the political boundaries that divide the world and the generic boundaries that
divide narratives.