TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ghosh,Amitav
TI  - Flood of fire
SN  - 9780719569005
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - John Murray Publishers Ltd
KW  - Opium trade
KW  - History
KW  - Fiction
KW  - India
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Drug traffic
KW  - China
KW  - Sailing ships
KW  - Indian Ocean
KW  - HIstory
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Opium War, 1840-1842
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
N2  - 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. One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue. Among them is Kesri Singh, a sepoy in the East India Company who leads a company of Indian sepoys; Zachary Reid, an impoverished young sailor searching for his lost love, and Shireen Modi, a determined widow en route to China to reclaim her opium-trader husband's wealth and reputation. 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
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