Flood Of Fire
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: light stains on the book block; light bumping on corners and spine.
The year is 1839, and the winds of war are gathering over the Pearl River Delta — in Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh brings the third and final volume of his celebrated Ibis Trilogy to a thunderous close, chronicling the outbreak of the First Opium War through a vast, interwoven cast of soldiers, merchants, sepoys, and opium traders swept up in one of history's most consequential imperial conflicts. At the heart of the narrative is Kesri Singh, a battle-hardened havildar in the Bengal Infantry, whose fateful voyage aboard the Ibis binds him to a world fracturing under the weight of British colonial ambition and Chinese resistance. Ghosh constructs his plot with the precision of a historian and the imagination of a master storyteller, weaving together threads of desire, duty, and betrayal against a backdrop of monsoon seas and cannon smoke. Flood of Fire stands as a monumental achievement in postcolonial historical fiction, completing an epic that began with Sea of Poppies and continued through River of Smoke, and cementing Ghosh's reputation as one of the most significant literary voices of the twenty-first century. His prose — dense with period-authentic language, multilingual registers, and a profound moral intelligence — interrogates the machinery of empire with unflinching clarity, asking who profits from war and who is consumed by it. Rich with the sights and sounds of nineteenth-century Asia, this is a novel that refuses to release its reader long after the final page is turned.
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Format: Hardback
Published: 2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: light stains on the book block; light bumping on corners and spine.
The year is 1839, and the winds of war are gathering over the Pearl River Delta — in Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh brings the third and final volume of his celebrated Ibis Trilogy to a thunderous close, chronicling the outbreak of the First Opium War through a vast, interwoven cast of soldiers, merchants, sepoys, and opium traders swept up in one of history's most consequential imperial conflicts. At the heart of the narrative is Kesri Singh, a battle-hardened havildar in the Bengal Infantry, whose fateful voyage aboard the Ibis binds him to a world fracturing under the weight of British colonial ambition and Chinese resistance. Ghosh constructs his plot with the precision of a historian and the imagination of a master storyteller, weaving together threads of desire, duty, and betrayal against a backdrop of monsoon seas and cannon smoke. Flood of Fire stands as a monumental achievement in postcolonial historical fiction, completing an epic that began with Sea of Poppies and continued through River of Smoke, and cementing Ghosh's reputation as one of the most significant literary voices of the twenty-first century. His prose — dense with period-authentic language, multilingual registers, and a profound moral intelligence — interrogates the machinery of empire with unflinching clarity, asking who profits from war and who is consumed by it. Rich with the sights and sounds of nineteenth-century Asia, this is a novel that refuses to release its reader long after the final page is turned.