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River of Smoke

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 521 sider

Beskrivelse

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year

A NPR Best Book of the Year

In Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants. Now, in River of Smoke, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton. Meanwhile, the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries horticulturists determined to track down the priceless botanical treasures of China. All will converge in Canton's Fanqui-town, or Foreign Enclave, a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars. A spectacular adventure, but also a bold indictment of global avarice, River of Smoke is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal521
  • Udgivelsesdato02-10-2012
  • ISBN139781250013750
  • Forlag Picador Usa
  • Nummer i serien2
  • FormatPaperback
  • Udgave0
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt317 g
  • Dybde2 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    14,4 cm
    22,6 cm

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