One Book - Many Worlds: Munich Reads Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

This project invites faculty, staff, students and the public to join in a multifaceted discussion of climate change during the winter semester of 2024/2025, taking the novel Gun Island by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh as a vantage point.

"One Book - Many Worlds" takes on the challenge to dissect and discuss the complex ecological and social dimensions of climate change in innovative, imaginative, and interdisciplinary formats.

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About Gun Island

Gun Island offers the perfect platform for engaging with a multitude of pressing issues. The novel tells the story of Brooklyn antiquarian Deen Dutta, who finds himself on a turbulent historical scavenger hunt around the world, bringing him face to face with old and new acquaintances, a medieval Bengali legend, and the consequences of climate change. From Calcutta to Los Angeles to Venice, on his travels Deen encounters both the realities of the current climate catastrophe and the mythical and unreal experiences that mark Ghosh’s prose and his long-standing critique of globalization.