Smoke And Ashes - Opium's Hidden Histories

The book gave me a deeper chill than any of the TV series about the opioid crisis I had viewed before reading it . . . The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb, and there are splashes of personal back story that underscore the sincerity of the author''s arguments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. He holds two lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2015, he was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor, and in 2024 he was awarded the Laureate Erasmus Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: AMITAV GHOSH, Amitav Ghosh, Ghosh Amitav
• Verlag: John Murray
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781529349269
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-4926-9
• Seiten: 416
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; China, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Asia / China, maritime history