Diluvio di fuoco: Trilogia dell'Ibis, Vol. 3

by Amitav Ghosh, Michele Botrugno (Narrator)

È il 1840 e la tensione tra la Cina e l'India britannica cresce a dismisura in seguito alla repressione del contrabbando di oppio da parte di Pechino. Le confische imperiali cinesi, tuttavia, non passano inosservate a Londra. L'oppio è troppo importante per le casse della regina, e troppo ghiotte sono le opportunità di profitto in quel fazzoletto di mondo per non scatenare una guerra contro il Celeste Impero. Sullo sfondo di queste tensioni, i protagonisti che abbiamo incontrato a bordo della Ibis si incontrano di nuovo, questa volta tra Canton e Hong Kong. L'oppio, che al pari di una forza occulta ha pilotato fin dall'inizio i loro destini, li mette uno di fronte all'altro, facendoli amare e odiare, perché ora si ritrovano nel bel mezzo del conflitto sotto bandiere diverse. Mentre vedono le loro certezze infrante e cercano ognuno per sé di inventarsi un nuovo futuro, tutti sono travolti dal dramma che sta per la vittoria dell'Impero britannico segnerà il crollo del mondo per come lo conoscevano.

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Published January 6, 2026

About the author

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace. Between 2004 and 2015, he worked on the Ibis trilogy, which revolves around the build-up and implications of the First Opium War. His non-fiction work includes In an Antique Land (1992) and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016).
Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honours, by the President of India. In 2010, he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood, of a Dan David prize, and in 2011, he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis festival in Montreal. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. In 2019, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade.