five years ago, Ghosh was interviewed about climate phenomena that he described in the novel that were subsequently appearing in real life—we can add this to the list

The uncanniness of climate change » Yale Climate Connections

An interview with Amitav Ghosh, author of 'Gun Island.'

Ghosh, though, gives his novel a happier ending—with a boat full of human migrants rescued by the combined forces of birds, whales, and kind human beings (against the racists trying to keep the boat from landing in Italy)