After waiting and
waiting and waiting, the Ibis finally berthed . . . Amitav Ghosh’s Flood
of Fire, the third and last in the Ibis Trilogy released in the
last week of May this year . . . I had pre-ordered the book on Amazon and
received my copy on 31st May . . . and couldn’t wait to start
reading . . . but first, I had to save the exquisite gold and red cover . . .
Actually, I had planned to re-read Sea of Poppies and River
of Smoke and get ready for the Flood of Fire, but the best laid
plans of men and so on and so forth . . . anyway, I started to read Flood
of Fire and slowly the characters and events started coming into focus
. . . but I could read only till page 55 . . . the last set of internal tests at
college started the next day and I was flooded with answer scripts for
correction and that occupied me for the rest of the week . . . and I had barely
finished them then the language lab tests started this Monday onwards and I am
stuck in the high seas till the end of this week, more or less . . . and I didn’t
want to read Flood of Fire in flickers and flashes . . . at least three
hours at a stretch would do very well, actually . . . a real blaze . . . let’s
see . . .
There were reviews and
excerpts and interviews in newsmagazines and papers the whole of the last week
of May and first week of June . . . all very nice, but I like to read interviews
with Amitav Ghosh . . . and look forward to the launch and reading in
Hyderabad, and I hope there is one . . . and the best part would be to have a
picture taken with my really favourite writer and have his autograph on the
Flood of Fire . . .
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