River of smoke by Amitav Ghosh Summary in English | BA/MA/NET/SET/ |  

Amitav Ghosh's novel River of Smoke to the genre of the historical fiction. The Book is divided into 3 parts as said in the video that contains style and techniques as follows: 1. Gosh leaves novel open ended, a technique that makes reader to interpret and guess what may happen next. 2. Style of the Novel is postmodern. 3. Through the book’s many lengthy and meandering disquisitions on the opium trade, botany and art, Ghosh sustains an ominous tone, even after climactic events. 4. River of Smoke is a not a univocal narrative technique. It frames a series of inter related stories from history presented by multiple narrators. Eg: Ghosh has tried to project and reproduce the Canton with different voices of traders, migrants, lascars, government officials, British officers, business men, botanists, horticulturists, and even painters. To replicate the opium trade and pre-war conditions in Canton 5. Amitav Ghosh has relied to great extent on original historial records to create an emotional and fictional response to the condition of sufferers. 6. There is the use of third-person narrator along with first person character narrators which has special effects on the narration of the story that couldn't have been narrated otherwise. While first person character narrator narrates the inner psyche of the characters being one among them in the narrative or due to some proximity with other characters, the third person narrator on the other hand tells the story from outside by having a panoramic view of the whole as omnipresent narrator.

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It is mainly focusing on the Opium trade in 1930s between India and China.