The Book Club Meet

The Book Club

will meet to discuss

FLOOD OF FIRE
by Amitava Ghosh

The final book in the bestselling Ibis trilogy.
Sunita Shetty will lead the discussion.

The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Amitav Ghosh. It comprises of: Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire (2015). The story is set in the first half of the 19th century. It deals with the trade of opium between India and China run by the East India Company and the trafficking of coolies to Mauritius. The trilogy gets its name from the ship Ibis, on board which most of the main characters meet for the first time.

ABOUT THE BOOK: It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war.  Flood of Fire follows a varied cast of characters from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War and China’s devastating defeat, to Britain’s seizure of Hong Kong.  Flood of Fire is a thrillingly realised and richly populated novel, imbued with a wealth of historical detail, suffused with the magic of place and plotted with verve. It is a beautiful novel in its own right, and a compelling conclusion to an epic and a sweeping story.

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