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but they are living in a world where a loaf of bread costs half a million dollars - a country expected to have only four presidents in a hundred years

it can show us that anything is possible

Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven't considered before

often darkly funny

In An Antique Land Postcards but they are living inPacked with anecdote and exuberant detail, In an Antique Land provides magical and intimate insights into Egypt from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm. It exposes the indistinguishable and intertwining ties that bind together India and Egypt, Hindus and Muslims and Jews. By combining fiction, history, travel writing and anthropology, to create a single seamless work of imagination, Ghosh characteristically makes us rethink the political