Flood of Fire
Amitav Gosh
Unabridged
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4066339688797
23 hours 29 minutes
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'Istoriya razvorachivaetsya v 1839 godu. Napryazhenie mezhdu Kitaem i Britanskoy Indiey stremitel'no rastet vsledstvie prervannoy Pekinom kontrabandy opiuma. Britanskie kolonialisty, poteryav ogromnye summy deneg i ne vidya drugih resheniy, ob'yavlyayut Kitayu voynu. Sobiraetsya ekspedicionnyy korpus dlya napadeniya, chtoby vosstanovit' torgovlyu. «Ibis» — odno iz sudov britano-indiyskoy armady — plyvet v Kitay iz Bengalii i popadaet v samyy razgar Pervoy opiumnoy voyny. Bespokoynoe puteshestvie ob'edinyaet sud'by neskol'kih puteshestvennikov, kazhdyy iz kotoryh presleduet svoyu cel'. Sredi nih Kesri Singh, sipay iz Ost-Indskoy kompanii, vozglavlyayushchiy otryad voennyh, Zahariy Reyd, obednevshiy molodoy moryak, ishchushchiy svoyu poteryannuyu lyubov', i SHirin Modi, reshitel'naya vdova kupca-parsa, napravlyayushchayasya v Kitay, chtoby vernut' bogatstvo i reputaciyu svoego muzha. «Ognennyy potok» proneset vas ot Indii do Kitaya, ot nachala Pervoy opiumnoy voyny do grandioznogo zahvata Gonkonga Velikobritaniey. Vnimanie! Fonogramma soderzhit necenzurnuyu bran'.'