6/28/2023 0 Comments Benjamin burnham sea of poppies“Flood of Fire” requires no knowledge of the previous books, which Ghosh deftly recalls as necessary in an action-packed narrative following four main protagonists, each connected in some way to events in the previous novels. In “Flood of Fire,” the trilogy’s sprawling, stirring final volume, China’s determination to end the trade leads to the outbreak of the first Opium War. Driving much of the plot in both novels was the opium trade forced on China by the British East India Company. The trilogy’s first volume, “Sea of Poppies,” focused on the tumultuous 1838 journey of the British schooner Ibis “River of Smoke” followed some of the ship’s passengers after it was caught in a violent storm. In the Ibis Trilogy, Ghosh continues to explore these themes while moving away from the highly wrought style of such earlier works as “The Circle of Reason” and “The Calcutta Chromosome” to a more direct though no less complex form of narrative. Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s work has always been concerned with the legacy of colonialism and the global connections among people of different histories and culture.
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