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Amitav Ghosh turned to legends to write a story large enough for climate change
Listen to the episodeA 2019 novel retelling an ancient Bengali myth of a nature goddess who sets calamity after calamity upon a merchant consumed by money, used as a framework to explore the full scope of climate change and humanity's lack of control over its consequences.
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