About the Book: Great Derangement: Climate Change And The Unthinkable
ARE WE DERANGED?
One of Indias greatest writers, Amitav Ghosh, argues that future generations
may well think so. How else can we explain our imaginative failure in the face
of global warming? In this groundbreaking return to non-fiction, Ghosh examines
our inability-at the level of literature, history and politics-to grasp the
scale and violence of climate change. The climate crisis asks us to imagine
other forms of human existence-a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the
best suited of all forms. The Great Derangement serves as a brilliant writers
summons to confront the