THE INVISIBLE HAND

AMITAV GHOSH

ISBN 10: 1529349265 / ISBN 13: 9781529349269

Verlag: HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2025

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Condition: Fine | Language: English | Product Type: Books.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 37563878/22

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• Titel: THE INVISIBLE HAND
• Verlag: HODDER & STOUGHTON
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
• ISBN-10: 1529349265
• ISBN-13: 9781529349269
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Fine
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From the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporting vast quantities of opium from India, waged wars to defend its access to markets, and created a devastating addiction crisis in China. A sweeping story of greed and power, Smoke and Ashes reveals how opium created the wealth of modern cities like Mumbai, Singapore and Shanghai, as well as many of America's most powerful families and institutions, and is a part of Ghosh's personal history.

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Amitav Ghosh is the author of the bestselling Ibis trilogy, comprised of Sea of Poppies (short-listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, 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 holds two lifetime achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2015, he was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to receive the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honor, and in 2024 he was awarded the Laureate Erasmus Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.