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From short stories to serial novels to an engrossing Russian saga, here are the 10 fiction titles the Monitor's book critics liked best in 2015.
War looms, then implodes, in the astounding final book of Amitav Ghosh’s spectacular “Ibis” trilogy. This third book follows the marvelous cast of characters developed in the first two volumes from India to China, through the outbreak of the First Opium War, and on to the conflict’s devastating conclusion. (CSMonitor.com review, 8/4/15)
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 616 pp.)
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