Amitav Ghosh

“The Glass Palace” (2021)

The Glass Palace

“Flood of Fire: A Novel (The Ibis Trilogy)” (2016)

“River Of Smoke” (2011)

A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book For 2011 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 Lover, 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 Frederick Fitcher Penrose, A Horticulturist Determined To Track Down The Priceless Treasures Of China That Are Hidden In Plain Sight: Its 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 Sometimes 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 Than 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 Converge, 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.

“Sea Of Poppies (ibis Trilogy)” (2008)

an Epic Novel Of The Opium Trade By A Writer Of Supreme Skill And Intelligence (atlantic Monthly)."the Barnes & Noble Reviewremember Stories? Those Rich Fictions That We Devoured As Children And That Gave Us A Lifelong Taste For Generous, Hearty Books? Literary Fashion May Dictate That We Avoid Such Indulgences And Consume Instead Desiccated Novels Containing Just One Gristly Ingredient: Consciousness. But Real Readers, However Sophisticated, Crave Real Stories Now And Then. Thankfully, These Are Still Being Written, Often By Postcolonial Novelists Such As Amitav Ghosh, Whose sea Of Poppies, Is Both A Writer's Triumph And A Reader's Delight. Better Yet, It Is The First Volume Of A Proposed Trilogy.

“Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times” (2007)

Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times