Book review | In ‘Smoke and Ashes’, Amitav Ghosh connects the dots between opium, China and the world today

 Book review | In ‘Smoke and Ashes’, Amitav Ghosh connects the dots between opium, China and the world today

Author Amitav Ghosh’s new book, based on the rigorous research that informed his Ibis Trilogy, is a genre-bending cautionary tale about bullish globalisation.

Much of Amitav Ghoshs new book, Smoke and Ashes: A Writers Journey Through Opiums Hidden Histories, is similar to the trilogy that the books hefty and expansive contents fuelled. Ghoshs Ibis Trilogy …