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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories Hardcover - 2024

by Ghosh, Amitav

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  • Title Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
  • Author Ghosh, Amitav
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Date 2024-02-13
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1401419
  • ISBN 9780374602925 / 0374602921
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.38 x 1.65 in (23.60 x 16.21 x 4.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Commerce - History, India - Commerce - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2023039020
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.473

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/15/2024, Page 19
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2023, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 09/01/2023, Page 18
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/29/2024, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 03/15/2024, Page 0

About the author

Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis Trilogy, composed of Sea of Poppies (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Mdicis tranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. He has received two lifetime achievement awards and five honorary doctorates. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to win the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.