The Calcutta Chromosome
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| Author | Amitav Ghosh |
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| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller, Speculative fiction novel |
| Publisher | Picador |
| Released | 23 Aug 1996 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 309 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0330347586 |
The Calcutta Chromosome is a 1996 English Language novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. The book, for the most part set in Calcutta at some unspecified time in the future, is a medical thriller that dramatises the adventures of apparently disconnected people who are brought together by a mysterious turn of events.
The book is loosely based on the life and times of Sir Ronald Ross, the Nobel Prize winning scientist who achieved a breakthrough in malaria research in 1898.
The book won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997.
