Amitav Ghosh and Aleksandar Hemon

Amitav Ghosh displays a “masterful ability to weave his ordinary characters’ extraordinary fates into a story at once highly compelling, deeply moving, and richly significant,” wrote Claire Messud. He is the author of The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Incendiary Circumstances and Sea of Poppies. The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon's third work of fiction, is "the fearless and spirited expression of a turbulent literary talent and, at the same time, a cold fierce blast of moral outrage," wrote Patrick McGrath. "One catches glimpses not only of Nabokov and Sebald but of Bulgakov, Pamuk, Amis, Poe." Mr. Hemon's other books are The Question of Bruno and Nowhere Man. Are You 35 or Younger? Buy tickets to any Reading Series or Afternoon Night Table event for