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Un Fleuve de Fumée by Ghosh, Amitav; Besse, Christiane is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Ibis, Loaded To Its Gunwales With A Cargo Of Indentured Servants, Is In The Grip Of A Cyclone In The Bay Of Bengal; Among The Dozens Flailing For Survival Are Neel, The Pampered Raja Who Has Been Convicted Of Embezzlement; Paulette, The French Orphan Masquerading As A Deck Hand; And Deeti, The Widowed Poppy Grower Fleeing Her Homeland With Her Love, Kalua. The Storm Also Threatens The Clipper Ship Anahita, Groaning With The Largest Consignment Of Opium Ever To Leave India For Canton. And The Redruth, A Nursery Ship, Carries Fitcher' Penrose, A Horticulturist Determined To Track Down The Priceless Treasures Of China That Are Hidden In Plain Sight: Plants That Have The Power To Heal, Or Beautify, Or Intoxicate. All Will Converge In Canton's Fanqui-town, Or Foreign Enclave: A Tumultuous World Unto Itself Where Civilizations Clash And Sometime Fuse. It Is A Powder Keg Awaiting A Spark To Ignite The Opium Wars. Spectacular Coincidences, Startling Reversals Of Fortune, And Tender Love Stories Abound. But This Is Much More That An Irresistible Page-turner. The Blind Quest For Money, The Primacy Of The Drug Trade, The Concealment Of Base Impulses Behind The Rhetoric Of Freedom: In Rive

Who reads Un Fleuve de Fumée?

Author

Ghosh, Amitav; Besse, Christiane

Publisher

Groupe Robert Laffont

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719568985

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (5,195 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13