Amitav Ghosh's latest novel Gun Island (2019) is a fictional experimentation of his concern about climate change as conveyed in his nonfiction treatise The Great Derangement (2016). The story rotates round the experiences of a Brooklyn-based Indian dealer in rare books named Dinanath (Deen). Deen loves to lead a quiet life spent indoors but his visit to his birthplace Kolkata changes his attitude to life and surroundings. He finds his life becoming entangled with an ancient legend about Manasa Devi, the goddess of snakes. While visiting a temple, deep within the vast mangrove forests of Bengal, he
Associate Professor, Department of English, Suri Vidyasagar College, Suri, West Bengal
