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Original Title:	River of Smoke
ISBN:	184854717X (ISBN13: 9781848547179)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ibis Trilogy #2
Setting:	Canton(China) Singapore Mauritius
Literary Awards:	Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2013), Man Asian Literary Prize Nominee (2011), The Hindu Literary Prize Nominee (2011), DSC Prize Nominee for South Asian Literature (2013)

River of Smoke: Ibis Trilogy Book 2 (Ibis Trilogy #2) Paperback | Pages: 584 pages

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Title	:	River of Smoke: Ibis Trilogy Book 2 (Ibis Trilogy #2)
Author	:	Amitav Ghosh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 584 pages
Published	:	May 10th 2012 by John Murray (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. India. China. Asia

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In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts of the emperor to stop them, ships from Europe and India exchange their cargoes of opium for boxes tea, silk, porcelain and silver. Among them are Bahram Modi, a wealthy Parsi opium merchant out of Bombay, his estranged half-Chinese son Ah Fatt, the orphaned Paulette and a motley collection of others whose pursuit of romance, riches and a legendary rare flower have thrown together. All struggle to cope with their losses—and for some, unimaginable freedoms—in the alleys and crowded waterways of 19th-century Canton.

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Ratings: 3.94 From 8279 Users | 913 Reviews

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Oh, my... This book sets such a high standard that it makes me think I should go back and "demote" a lot of my five-star books to four! River of Smoke is the second novel of a planned trilogy by Amitov Ghosh. I loved the first one, Sea of Poppies, but delayed reading River of Smoke after it came out, just to prolong the anticipation. I was not disappointed. The novels take place against the backdrop of the opium trade, overseen by the British between India and China. The political, economical,

What utter fascination and delight to read Amitav Ghosh. His characters are perfectly drawn, from the inside out, and this book in particular, River of Smoke, paints, with a fine and delicate brush, a colorful and ornate portrait of Canton's Fanqui town and the opium trade involving Britain, India, and isolationist China in the middle 1800s.Historical fiction, this reads more like a fictional novel, full of characters with longing and ambition in a wide range, from self-righteous, racist,

2.5★ rounded upOh I feel mean! There was nothing wrong with this book - I just didn't get into it the way I expected to. Amitav Ghosh is one of my favourite authors, and I remember really enjoying #1 of the Ibis trilogy when I read it years ago. But this just didn't have enough story for 550+ pages, and it became a laborious read. I'm hoping that it is an ambitious transition book between #1 and #3.In the opening pages we find out what happened to the major characters from Sea of Poppies after

Wow. Major letdown after Sea of Poppies. The playfulness is gone, replaced by a long didactic slog through the lead up to the Opium Wars. Far too much exposition, with long long excerpting from historical documents, so that the entire novel centers around the dry political machinations of the foreign merchants, and everything else -- particularly the rich panoply of characters that made the first book such a delight -- is pushed to the edges. Even Paulette - who unlike most of the characters

This is my second read of the second book in the Ibis Trilogy. I have re-read both The Sea of Poppies and this book in preparation of the third book, which I have recently obtained - I found I could only vaguely remember the first, but a fair bit of this book.I recall that I was fairly disappointed with this book the first time I read it, and at the end of my second reading, I again feel disappointed. Part of what I enjoyed in The Sea of Poppies was the many characters and their woven stories.

Where is this book?? It was originally to be published in 10/2010, but my local bookseller hasn't seen it?? My heart is still stranded in that longboat paddling away from the Ibis!!

In a literary world whose bestseller lists are clogged up with chick-lit and the memoirs of C-list celebs, it may seem churlish to make the chief criticism of Amitav Ghosh's 519-page 'River Of Smoke' that of over-ambition.Ghosh's novel - the second in a trilogy that began with the Booker-shortlisted 'Sea Of Poppies' in 2008 - is an epic by any standards: extraordinarily researched; superb in its evocation of a distant time and place. But strictly in the context of the literary firmament into