New Delhi, Jan. 11 -- Amitav Ghosh's new novel, Ghost-Eye, takes ahead the story he had started telling in The Hungry Tide (2004), set in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal's Gangetic delta region, threatened by climatic upheavals. He returned to it, along with some of the original cast of characters, more recently in Gun Island (2019), where he expanded the narrative to grapple with environmental catastrophes unfolding in the US and Italy. Between the last novel and this one, he published a translation of the folklore of Bonbibi Johuranama, also indigenous to the Sundarbans, deftly rendering it into a meter that mimicked the original dwipodi poyar, or the two-footed line. Along the way, Ghosh has also written non-fiction on related crises in...