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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Calcutta Chromosome, The by Amitav Ghosh
From Victorian lndia to nearfuture New York The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mindnumbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a longlost acquaintance he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe into the strange life of L. Murugan a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night.