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Once upon a time, an Indian article writer name Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some 700 years before acquired traveled to the Middle East. The trip needed him to a little community in Egypt, where medieval customs coexisted with 20th-century dreams and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life span of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian friends and neighbors. Incorporating shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. A few of these information are real, some only dreamed, but all emerge as vividly as the character types in a great novel. In an old-fashioned Land can be an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it can eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell.
