Book review | In âSmoke and Ashesâ, Amitav Ghosh connects the dots between opium, China and the world today
Author Amitav Ghoshâs 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 …