{"product_id":"smoke-and-ashes","title":"Smoke and Ashes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, gardens and its role in modern wars . . . But it's Ghosh's big-picture thinking that has made his nonfiction so influential . . . A huge achievement'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the nineteenth century the British reaped huge profits by exporting vast quantities of opium from India, waged wars to defend its access to markets, and created a devastating addiction crisis in China. A sweeping story of greed and power, \u003ci\u003eSmoke and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how opium created the wealth of modern cities like Mumbai, Singapore and Shanghai, as well as many of America's most powerful families and institutions, and is a part of Ghosh's personal history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Ghosh triumphs in laying out the shame of the British Empire's opium trade for all to see'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'This gave me a deeper chill than any TV series about the opioid crisis. . . The writing is sublime, the research thorough, the eye for story superb'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Superlative . . . synthesise[s] a wealth of research with remarkable intellectual clarity'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'Expansive and thoughtful'\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Frankopan, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Smoke and Ashes","offer_id":46307862020293,"sku":null,"price":33.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5293-4926-9.jpg?v=1780543176","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/smoke-and-ashes","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}