Amitav Ghosh's new non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes' to release in July 2023

Amitav Ghosh's new non-fiction book 'Smoke and Ashes' to release in July 2023

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Category : Miscellaneous Published on: April 29 2023

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  • Award-winning author Amitav Ghosh's new book 'Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories' is all set to be released in India in July this year.
  • 'Smoke and Ashes' explores the opium trade's effect on world history and how it continues to hugely impact our lives today.
  • Celebrated author Amitav Ghosh's next book, 'Smoke and Ashes', to be released by HarperCollins India's Fourth Estate imprint on July 15.
  • 'Smoke and Ashes', according to Ghosh, also traces the transformative impact that the opium trade had on India, China, Britain and the United States, with profound long-term consequences for the birth of the modern world, and of contemporary globalism.
  • Amitav Ghosh other acclaimed works include “The Shadow Lines”, “The Glass Palace”, “The Hungry Tide”, “Gun Island”, “The Great Derangement”, “The Nutmeg’s Curse”, “Jungle Nama” and “The Living Mountain”. 
  • His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2019, he became the first English-language writer to receive India’s highest literary honour – the Jnanpith Award.
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