- Fiction, Voyages and travels, Opium trade, History
"The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Amitav Ghosh
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 624
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, Picador, Alfa Yayinlari
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9781473620117
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