The Calcutta chromosome : a novel of fevers, delirium, and discovery

From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost 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. Genre/Form: Adventure stories Fiction Material Type: Fiction Document Type: Book All Authors / Contributors: Amitav Ghosh Find more information about: ISBN: 0380975858 9780380975853 OCLC Number: 36590020 Description: 311 p. ; 22 cm. Responsibility: Amitav Ghosh. Abstract: A computer operator in New York stumbles on information regarding an experiment in 1895 Calcutta to change people. In the experiment, mosquitos were used to transfer chromosomes from one person to another. Antar, a computer-bound Egyptian clerk in New York City, investigates the strange truth of what happened in a tropical laboratory in the 1890s. Offers a cast of extraordinary characters, advanced computer science, religious cults, and portraits of 20th-century India and America After Antar, "a low-level programmer and data analyst" in a near future New York City, comes across a lost I.D. card, he travels back in time to examine experiments concerning controlled destinies If the system hadn't stalled Antar would never have guessed that the scrap of paper on his screen was the remnant of an ID card.