About the book: 2022 / The final part of the “Ibis Trilogy” (the first two books are “The Sea of ​​Poppy” and “The Smoky River”). The year is 1839 and tensions between China and Britain are rapidly rising. China does not want foreigners to turn it into a giant market for Indian opium. Losing huge incomes, the British colonialists start a war. The British-Indian armada is approaching the Chinese Canton. Among other ships is the schooner “Ibis”, with which the fates of all the heroes are somehow connected. Among them are Sepoy Kesri Singh, who leads a detachment of Indian soldiers; young sailor Zachary Reid, dreaming of wealth and fame; Shirin Modi, the widow of a Parsi merchant heading to China to recover her husband's lost wealth; the young Frenchwoman Paulette, who followed in the footsteps of her father, a botanist; former Raja Nile, trying to find peace in Canton... The final book of the trilogy will tell what happened to the heroes of “The Poppy Sea” and “Smoky River”. Their dramatic destinies unfold against the backdrop of an equally dramatic larger History, forming a huge and colorful multi-figure canvas. In 2015, the novel “Fire Stream” became the winner of the Crossword Book Award, the most authoritative literary award in India.