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Sea of poppies

Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.

Main Author: Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Ibis trilogy ; 1
Subjects:
Schooners > Fiction.
Voyages and travels > Fiction.
Sailors > Fiction.
Travelers > Fiction.
Social classes > India > Fiction.
Opium trade > History > Fiction.
India > Social conditions > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary: Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Item Description: "Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description: 515 p. : map ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780312428594
0312428596
9780374174224
0374174229
Author Notes: Born in Calcutta, and spent his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Northern India. He studied in Delhi, Oxford, and Egypt and taught at various Indian and American universities. Author of a travel book and three acclaimed novels. Ghosh has also written for GRANTA, THE NEW YORKER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, and THE OBSERVER. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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