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Title: Brilliant mix of travelogue, biography and history
Review: The narrative weaves between Ghosh's account of a year spent living in modern-day Egypt; and the second storyline, his reconstruction of the fascinating life of a medieval Jewish Arab merchant who travelled to India, married a local woman and settled there.If those sound like distant and obscure tales, it's a tribute to Ghosh's prose that he makes the reader quite attached to both yarns, and keeps you wondering how they will turn out. Great stuff!
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