After the first and second novels in this
trilogy, I was looking forward to the third novel … book launch forecasts in
early 2014 indicated that the third one wouldn’t be out in the year and I was
disappointed … it had been quite some since the second novel was launched and
devoured and the wait was beginning to become unbearable …
Around four weeks back, a small report with
the author’s photo in The Week gave out the good news that the third novel in
the trilogy is ready and would be released sometime in mid 2015 … and the name
of the novel too was mentioned … aha … I logged on to Amazon.in and typed the
name and there it was … no, the book was not for sale, not even pre-order, but you
could sign up for an ‘alert’ … a space for your email and a submit button and
the amazonians would let you know when the book would be released … so, it is
confirmed now that Amitav Ghosh’s
third novel in the Ibis Trilogy would be released this year …
During the days after reading the second
novel, River of Smoke, I started this guessing game of the probable
names the third novel would have … the first one was called Sea
of Poppies … somewhere I was sure that the title would have some
reference to ‘water’ … and after ‘Sea’ narrowed down to ‘River,’ I speculated
that the title of the third would refer to a further narrowed down waterbody … ‘Lake’
perhaps … ‘Pond’ was too small … ‘Stream’
may be … or even ‘Waterfall’ …
When I read the title of the third novel, I
saw that there sure was a reference to ‘water,’ but not ‘Lake’ or ‘Stream’ or ‘Waterfall,’
but ‘Flood!’ … and there was ‘Fire’ too … the third novel in the Ibis Trilogy
is called ‘Flood of Fire’ … and
amazon has a picture of the book jacket … I think it is the cover photo of the
American edition, and it is a little dry for my liking … I liked the vibrant jacket designs of the
Indian hardback editions of Sea of Poppies and River
of Smoke and I hope when the Indian hardback edition of Flood
of Fire releases, it would be as beautiful as the book jackets of the first
and the second novels … those of you who want to read more about Flood
of Fire, you could check out this link … http://www.amazon.in/Flood-Fire-Novel-Ibis-Trilogy/dp/0374174245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420700315&sr=8-1&keywords=flood+of+fire
… but for now, I am waiting with only this photo of the book jacket for company
…
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