Sea of Poppies
Ibis Trilogy Book 1
$25.44
- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2009
Summary
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719568978 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719568978 |
| Author: | Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 128mm x 196mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Ibis Trilogy |
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All these aspects [history, rhetoric, politics, beliefs, religion, family, love, sexuality] are exuberantly explored and celebrated in Sea of Poppies, but none more so than language - Adelaide Advertiser
Ghosh’s story-telling is variously colourful, engrossing and detailed, and at times it smack of romantic fiction and magic realism - The Canberra TimesSet sail for an epic adventure on the high seas in this gripping tale… The acclaimed Ghosh has a gift of storytelling, and has worked his considerable magic in this first volume of his trilogy. Readers will be clamouring for the second instalment. - The Courier MailThis complex, sweeping, epic adventure set in 19th-century India…Sea of Poppies paints a colourful picture of life in colonial South-East Asia. - Herald SunSea of Poppies is a sprawling adventure with a cast of hundreds and numerous intricate stories encompassing poverty and riches, despair and hope, and the long-fingered reach of the opium trade. - The EconomistAbout The Author
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published the first of six novels, The Circle of Reason in 1986. He has taught at a number of institutions, most recently Harvard, and written for many publications. He currently divides his time between Calcutta, Goa and Brooklyn, and is writing the next volume of what will become the Ibis Trilogy.
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