"A novelist of dazzling ingenuity, Ghosh presents an engrossing tale that is at once a work of science fiction, a medical mystery, and a fascinating history of malaria research.... The plot unfolds like the involution of a hypertext, and the novel's clever subtext, which pits India's age-old wisdom and faith against Western science and England's colonial arrogance, is scintillating." –"San Francisco Chronicle"Ghosh unseams both chronology and distance with a Borgesian flair."–"The New Yorker"A rollicking ride between the past and the future, real and imagined history, science and counterscience."–"Los Angeles Times
