Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

From the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea’s Nobel Prize in Literature.

A collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh’s work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.

Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary writings on subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; and huma...