Flood of Fire - Ibis Trilogy

Zusatztext By an ingenious hotchpotch of different languages and registers! Ghosh's story roars along! constantly flipping between high seriousness and low humour. It is simultaneously wrong-footing and delightful Informationen zum Autor Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bangladesh! Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford! has taught at a number of institutions and written for many magazines. The first novel in the Ibis trilogy! Sea of Poppies ! was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. In 2015! Amitav Ghosh was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize. Klappentext The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. 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. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack! the Hind! travels eastwards from Bengal to China! sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers! each with their own agenda to pursue. Among them is Kesri Singh! a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid! an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love! and Shireen Modi! a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husband's wealth and reputation. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China! through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China's devastating defeat! to Britain's seizure of Hong Kong. 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. It is a beautiful novel in its own right! and a compelling conclusion to an epic and sweeping story - it is nothing short of a masterpiece. Zusammenfassung The thrilling climax to the Ibis trilogy that began with the phenomenal Booker-shortlisted Sea of Poppies. 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. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack! the Hind ! travels eastwards from Bengal to China! sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers! each with their own agenda to pursue. Among them is Kesri Singh! a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid! an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love! and Shireen Modi! a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husband's wealth and reputation. Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China! through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China's devastating defeat! to Britain's seizure of Hong Kong. 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. It is a beautiful novel in its own right! and a compelling conclusion to an epic and sweeping story - it is nothing short of a masterpiece. ...

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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
• Released: 16.06.2016
• EAN: 9781473626850
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-2685-0
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 177 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Ibis Trilogy
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature