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

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.