River of Smoke

Name: River of Smoke
Author: Amitav Ghosh

by Amitav Ghosh

Opium trade entangles merchants and misfits across colonial territories

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Amitav Ghosh

Indian novelist whose Ibis Trilogy reconstructs the nineteenth-century opium trade with extraordinary historical imagination. His work bridges the literary novel and historical epic. He is one of the most internationally celebrated Indian writers in English.

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