Fire stream. Gosh A.

The final part of the Ibis Trilogy (the first two books - the “poppy sea” and “smoky river”). 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 the other ships and the Schuna “Ibis”, with which the fate of all heroes are somehow connected. Among them Sipai Kesri Singh, heading a detachment of Indian soldiers; Young sailor Zakhary Raid, dreaming of wealth and glory; Shirin, Master, the widow of the merchant Parz, heading for China to return the lost wealth of her husband; The young Frenchwoman Polett, who followed in the footsteps of her father, a botnik scientist; Former Raja Neil, trying to find peace in Canton. The final book of the trilogy will tell you what happened to the heroes of the “poppy 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 CrossWord Book Award, the most authoritative literary prize of India.