Smoke and Ashes

af Amitav Ghosh

Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family¿the climax of a yearslong project.When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis trilogy ten years ago, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, h... (Læs mere)