Flood of Fire

Informationen zum Autor David Mitchell is the author of the novels Ghostwritten! number9dream! Cloud Atlas! Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. He has won the John Llewellyn Rhys! Geoffrey Faber Memorial and South Bank Show Literature Prizes! and been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. In 2003! David Mitchell was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. Klappentext It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight! the colonial government declares war. FLOOD OF FIRE is a thrillingly realised and richly populated novel! imbued with a wealth of historical detail! suffused with the magic of place and plotted with verve.

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A masterpiece . . . Flood of Fire is not just a work of literary imagination but also an exercise in deep and original historical reflection Chris Clark, author of Sleepwalkers

Product details

• Authors: Amitav Ghosh
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2015
• EAN: 9780719569012
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-6901-2
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 47 mm
• Series: JOHN MURRAY; Ibis; Ibis Trilogie; Ibis Trilogie
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Indische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)