Fire stream

1839, the tension between China and Britain is rapidly increasing. China does not want strangers to turn it into the giant market of Indian opium. Losing huge income, British colonialists are starting a war. The British-Indian armada is pulled to the Chinese canton. Among other ships and the schooner "ibis", with which the fate of all heroes are somehow connected. Among them are Sipai Kesri Singh, heading a detachment of Indian soldiers, a young sailor Zakhary Raid, who dreams of wealth and glory, Shirin Master, the widow of a merchant Paris, heading for China to return her husband’s lost wealth, young Frenchwoman Poletta, who followed in the footsteps of her father , a botnan scientist, former Raja Neil, trying to find peace in the canton ...
The final book of the trilogy will tell you what happened to the heroes of the Makov Sea and "Smoky River". Their dramatic fates unfold against the background of an equally dramatic large story, folding into a huge and variegated multi -figure canvas.

In 2015, the novel "Fire Stream" became the laureate of the Crossword Book Award, the largest literary prize of India.
The Ibis trilogy "of the main Indian writer Amitava Gosha - this is the spirit of adventurism, the wind of freedom, amazing plot collisions, exotic realities and immersion in the history of opium wars.
Natalia Lomikina

A delightfully inventive language gives a special charm of the already brilliant trilogy of Amitav Gosh, which, although it is historical, fully reflects the hypocrisy and tragedy of today. The epic trilogy of Gosha is worthy to enter the literary history.
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