Flood Of Fire - Book signing by Amitav Ghosh at Starmark, Express Avenue Shopping Mall

Events in Chennai - Flood Of Fire - Book signing by Amitav Ghosh at Starmark, Express Avenue Shopping Mall on 9 June 2015, 5.pm

Starmark is pleased to announce the book Signing event by Author Amitav Ghosh for his book "Flood of fire" on 9th June 2015, at 5.PM , Starmark Store , Express Avenue Mall.

About the book : Flood Of Fire:
It is 1839 and tension has been rapidly mounting between China and British India following the crackdown on opium smuggling by Beijing. With no resolution in sight, the colonial government declares war.
One of the vessels requisitioned for the attack, the Hind, travels eastwards from Bengal to China, sailing into the midst of the First Opium War. The turbulent voyage brings together a diverse group of travellers, each with their own agenda to pursue.

Flood of Fire is a thrillingly released and richly populated novel, imbued with a wealth of historical detail, suffused with the magic of place and plotted with verve. It is a beautiful novel in its own right, and a compelling conclusion to an epic and sweeping story.

About the Author :
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army. His first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi.Ghosh lives in New York with his wife, Deborah Baker, author of the Laura Riding biography In Extremis.

He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government in 2007. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2015 Ghosh was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow.