Ghost-Eye

Ghost-Eye moves between late-1960s and 1970s Calcutta and a present-day threatened by climate collapse. It begins when three-year-old Varsha Gupta, born into a strictly vegetarian family, insists on eating fish and describes vivid memories of a previous life in a mud house by a river, where she once caught and cooked fish herself. Alarmed, her family brings her to Dr. Shoma Bose, a psychologist investigating what she calls "cases of the reincarnation type."

Half a century later, Varsha's old case file resurfaces, catching the attention of a group of environmental activists. Shoma's nephew Dinu is pulled into their orbit and, alongside them, into a reckoning with buried memories of his own — as the novel's two timelines, Calcutta's past and Brooklyn's present, begin to converge.

Amitav Ghosh fuses a story of reincarnation with contemporary environmental activism, using the uncanny link between Varsha's memories and the present to explore family, fate, and ecological loss across generations.