River of Smoke is the second book in the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh. The story starts with an elderly Deeti Colver in Mauritius, visiting her shrine with its pictorial record of the family history. But another visitor is asked to make his not-insignificant contribution: soon the reminiscences of Neel Rattan Halder, also familiar to readers from Sea of Poppies, take over the tale. · Fri EDT. 0. 0. A mitav Ghosh's two latest novels carry us deep inside the opium trade in the s. River of Smoke is the second volume of a Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. River of Smoke is the second book in Amitav Ghosh’s planned Ibis trilogy set among the momentous events of the massive 19th-Century opium trade between India and China. The first book in the trilogy, Sea of Poppies, set the scene with an in-depth look at the harvesting and manufacture of opium in India/5.
Amitav Ghosh. September A storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and three ships-the Ibis, the Anahita and the Redruth-and those aboard are caught in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows the fortunes of these men and women to the crowded harbours of China where they struggle to cope with their losses-and, for a few, unimaginable. River of Smoke, the second book in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, ably continues a series that is easily one of the most inspired explorations of global encounters by a 21st-century writer. Set a. Buy River of Smoke: Ibis Trilogy Book 2 01 by Ghosh, Amitav (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Fri EDT. 0. 0. A mitav Ghosh's two latest novels carry us deep inside the opium trade in the s. River of Smoke is the second volume of a proposed trilogy. The first, Sea of. Mariella Frostrup talks to the award-winning author Amitav Ghosh about River of Smoke, the second book in Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy, set in the waterways around Canton during the events leading up to the start of the First Opium War in Listen to the audio interview here. In Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants. Now, in River of Smoke, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton.
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