At the Opium Factory
David Simpson: Amitav Ghosh, 22 October 2009
“... to be set in the village and the jungle, as in the exemplary magical-realist ‘world novel’, Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), which was written in one ‘world’ language (Spanish) and translated into another, English, three years after its first appearance. Franco Moretti has speculated that this novel and others like ... ”