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Sea of Poppies
β Scribed by Ghosh, Amitav
- Book ID
- 109025236
- Publisher
- Penguin Canada
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 489 KB
- Series
- Ibis 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780143053415
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β¦ Synopsis
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slave ship The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its crew a motley array of sailors, stowaways, and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, the ship boasts a diverse cast of Indians, coolies, and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed village woman, from a mulatto American to an evangelical opium trader. As their family ties wash away, they come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers, and an unlikely dynasty is born. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the back streets of China. But it is the panorama of sharply drawn characters that brings Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive. The first in a trilogy, this is a masterpiece by a world-class novelist.
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The first in an epic trilogy, *Sea of Poppies*Β is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventureΒ Γ la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (*The Observer* [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the
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At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China 's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of coloni