Armory Island. Gosh A.

A very rare romance of ideas and Roman Yidea very rare in times. The new book by Amitava Gosha can be called the “noosphere” novel, in it it combines the biological and social planes, spiritual and rational, scientific and mystical, artistic and documentary. But first of all, this is a novel about tradition and its role. This is a novel about the Kali-Yuga era, about the last days and a disaster that is approaching the world. But the decline and disorder can be opposed. And this is what the heroes of the “arms island” do.

The merchant of rare books, Dean is used to a quiet life, but once he is forced to go on an unusual journey, from New York to India, and then to Venice on a confused route-through the memories and experience of those whom he meets on his way. Pia, an American of Bengal origin; A type, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Dina's eyes at the realities of growing up in the modern world; Bengalian Rafi with his desperate attempt to help those in need; And the Italian Chint, who will give the missing link in a mysterious story, part of which they are all. Partly, an adventure novel, partly a detective, partly a novel to comprehend himself, the book of Amitav Gosh is first of all about the fact that the world is completely and completely dependent on our actions, decisions, thoughts