World Literature with Anderson Tepper: Amitav Ghosh “Smoke and Ashes”

Amitav Ghosh shares new book—part travelog, part history, part memoir—named as one of Literary Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2024." Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelog, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. Moving deftly between horticultural history, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, in Smoke and Ashes, Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant played in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.