by Amitav Ghosh · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781848547179
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«River of Smoke» is the historical novel by Amitav Ghosh, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (584 pages, in English).
A storm in 1838 hits the ship Ibis, carrying convicts and indentured workers from Calcutta to Mauritius, and five men disappear. The story follows passengers such as the Parsi merchant Bahram Modi, his son Ah Fatt and the orphan Paulette to nineteenth-century Canton, where opium is traded for tea, silk and porcelain.
Second instalment of the Ibis trilogy, originally published in 2011. The novel received nominations for the Warwick Prize for Writing, the Man Asian Literary Prize, The Hindu Literary Prize and the DSC Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and narratives of colonial India, especially those who have read Sea of Poppies.
Amitav Ghosh is an American writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
