Green Series: Amitav Ghosh on The Great Derangement & Climate Change

Are we deranged? In the October Green Series, the acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.

​Amitav Ghosh is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and  Flood of Fire. In 2017 he was awarded the inaugural Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah.

Brooklyn Public Library’s Green Series is dedicated to innovators in environmental conservation and understanding, and presents these voices while the new Greenpoint Library is being rebuilt with a new environmental education center. Join us and learn how to make an impact and make your voices heard.