When was the Flood of fire written?

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Amitav Ghosh's novel Flood of Fire was published in 2015. The novel is the third and finalvolume of the Ibis trilogy, which follows Sea of Poppies (2008) and River of Smoke (2011) and is about the 19th-century opium traffic between Indiaand China. The book was first published in England by John Murray, and then in the United States by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. In 2015, the work was nominated for The Hindu Literary Prize and won the Crossword Book Jury Award in Fiction.

Ghosh began work on the trilogy in 2004 but stated that it was conceived after he finished his novel The Glass Palace in 2000. To acquire study material, he travelled to China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Amitav had published seven books by the time Flood of Fire came out, including the first two volumes of this trilogy and five non-fictionworks.

Flood of Fire is the third and final book of Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, and it takes place between 1839 and 1841. Ghosh debunked all rumours by confirming that it is the final instalment of the Ibis trilogy at one of the book launch events. Ghosh revealed in an interview that he used to feel 'devastated' after finishing a book. As a result, he planned to write a trilogy so that he 'could spend a long time with the characters.'

The novel won the Crossword Book Jury Award in the fiction category in 2015, whereas Amish Tripathi's Scion of Ikshvaku got the public choice award in the fiction category. It was also shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize, which went to Easterine Kire for her work When the River Sleeps, which tells the narrative of a hunter on a one-man journey to find a strong stone in a faraway river that will grant him omnipotence.