Amitav Ghosh is the author of ten highly acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including The Glass Palace, The Shadow Lines, and the first two books of the Ibis trilogy, Sea of Poppies (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and River of Smoke. He divides his time between New York and India. Flood of Fire, the final book in the Ibis trilogy, is out this month from Penguin India.