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Published in the year 2011, River Of Smoke is a novel that revolves around the Opium trade, which originated from the poppy fields in India. Summary Of The Book River Of Smoke is the second novel in the The Ibis Saga trilogy, which revolves around the opium trade, which led to the Opium Wars in China. In this second novel, the opium drug is on its way to China, and three ships are brought together due to an unexpected storm. One of the three ships, The Anahita, was carrying an opium cargo to China, and it’s owner was Bahram Modi, a Parsi businessman, who was the son-in-law of a wealthy shipbuilder. With the passing away of his father-in-law, Modi’s brother-in-law tries his best to convince him to stop the business. However, Modi decided to quit, but only after his last order, which was to ship opium to China, before the ban on this substance came into effect. Ah fat, who is Modi’s son, and Neel Rattan, who is a landlord, are both convicts, having escaped from The Ibis. The three of them meet Paulette Lambert, and Fitcher Penrose, near Canton. What happens next? Read on to find out. About Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh is a renowned Bengali author from India. Apart from this book, Ghosh has written a number of other books, and they include Dancing In Cambodia And At Large In Burma, The Calcutta Chromosome, In An Antique Land (1992), and The Glass Palace (2000). Ghosh was born on the July 11, 1956, in Calcutta, India. He completed his schooling from The Doon School, and later went on to attend St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He later attended the Delhi School Of Economics, and finished his D. Phil in Social Anthropology from St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He first began work at the Indian Express newspaper company in New Delhi. He now resides in New York, along with his spouse, Deborah Baker, who is the senior editor at Little, Brown And Company. In the year 2007, Ghosh was awarded with the Padma Shri by the Indian Government. He is also a visiting professor at several universities, including Harvard University. He is also a fellow of the Centre For Studies In Social Sciences, Calcutta.