--- title: "When was the Flood of fire written?" description: "When was the Flood of fire written?" author: "Rajib Ahluwalia" published: 2018-08-27 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48562/when-was-the-flood-of-fire-written category: "books & novels" tags: ["books and literature"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # When was the Flood of fire written? When was the [Flood of fire](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48557/who-wrote-the-flood-of-fire-and-when) written?\ \ \ ## Answers ### Answer by Harshal Vispute **Amitav Ghosh's novel Flood of [Fire](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4956/why-our-ancestors-practiced-agnihotra-fire-rituals-daily) was published in 2015.** The novel is the **third** and **final** **volume of the Ibis trilogy**, which follows **Sea of Poppies (2008)** and **River of Smoke (2011)** and is about the **19th-century** opium traffic between **[India](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93637/india-has-jointly-set-up-a-friendship-park-with-which-nation)**and **[China](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93162/what-is-the-role-of-china-in-rcep)**. The book was first published in **England** by **John Murray**, and then in the **[United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92993/why-the-united-states-is-the-only-superpower)** 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-fiction** **works**. 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. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/48562/when-was-the-flood-of-fire-written Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.