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River of smoke
- Author
- Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-
- Title
- River of smoke / Amitav Ghosh.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Published
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
- Description
- 522 p. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Cover image> http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/231/9780374174231/image/lgcover.9780374174231.jpg
- Notes
- "Originally published in 2011 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso. Sequel to: Sea of poppies.
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject headings
- Schooners--Fiction. Voyages and travels--Fiction. Sailors--Fiction. Cyclones--Fiction. Social classes--India--Fiction. Opium trade--History--Fiction. India--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre heading
- Historical fiction.
- ISBN
- 9780374174231 (hbk.) 0374174237 (hbk.)