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River of smoke

Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.

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  • ""The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her homeland with her love, Kalua. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton. And the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries "Fitcher' Penrose, a horticulturist determined to track down the priceless treasures of China that are hidden in plain sight: plants that have the power to heal, or beautify, or intoxicate. All will converge in Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave: a tumultuous world unto itself where civilizations clash and sometime fuse. It is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars. Spectacular coincidences, startling reversals of fortune, and tender love stories abound. But this is much more that an irresistible page-turner. The blind quest for money, the primacy of the drug trade, the concealment of base impulses behind the rhetoric of freedom: in River of Smoke, the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries meet, and the result is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance. Critics praised Sea of Poppies for its vibrant storytelling, antic humor, and rich narrative scope; now Amitav Ghosh continues the epic that has charmed and compelled readers all over the globe"--Provided by publisher."
  • "Mauritius: There, in the crowded harbours, disparate lives converge as people come to find their fortunes, opium merchants from Europe and India exchange their illicit cargo for riches, and an Englishman goes in search of a mythical flower. But all their lives are about to change dramatically as the Chinese emperor steps up the fight to banish the poisonous opium trade from his shores for ever... (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso)."
  • "The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey by boat to China with the Opium war a constant backdrop to their travels."
  • "Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars."
  • "Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise"
  • "Electronic books (Kindle)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Indic fiction (English)"
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Historical fiction, Indic (English)"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Der rauchblaue Fluss : Roman"
  • "Naśe kā dariyā"
  • "Der rauchblaue Fluss"
  • "River of smoke : [a novel]"
  • "Der rauchblaue Fluss Roman"
  • "River of smoke"@en
  • "River of smoke"
  • "Il fiume dell'oppio"@it
  • "Il fiume dell'oppio"
  • "Un fleuve de fumée"
  • "Ríos de humo"@es
  • "River of Smoke (Book #2 Ibis Series)"
  • "Rivier van mist"

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