River of Smoke
- Author Amitav Ghosh
- Narrator Lyndham Gregory
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 22 hours and 9 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Generational sagas, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
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Critics Review
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Praise for River of Smoke
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‘Ghosh’s novel is a tense, compelling account… The accumulation of minutiae puts the reader so firmly in the time and place that the whole thing becomes as hypnotic as an opium dream and pretty unputdownable’
Daily Mail -
‘For those who like to see history bought alive through the deployment of wave upon wave of plausible detail, River of Smoke should prove a marvellous read’
Literary Review -
‘The novel’s strength lies in how thoroughly Ghosh fills out his research with his novelistic fantasy, seduced by each new situation that presents itself and each new character, so that the scenes read with a sensual freshness as if they were happening now’
Guardian -
Praise for Sea of Poppies
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‘Sea of Poppies boasts a varied collection of characters to love and hate, and provides wonderfully detailed descriptions of opium production … utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page’
Peter Parker, Sunday Times
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