Sea of Poppies
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He was born in Calcutta on 11 July 1956 and he grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ghosh studied at The Doon School in Dehradun and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. Ghosh holds two Lifetime Achievement awards and four honorary doctorates. In 2007 he was awarded the Padma Shri. In 2010 he was a joint winner, along with Margaret Atwood of a Dan David prize and 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix of the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal. He was the first English-language writer to receive the award. Works : The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, Flood of Fire, Gun Island, Jungle Nama, The Living Mountain, In an Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia and at Large in Burma, Countdown, The Imam and the Indian, Incendiary Circumstances, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Uncanny and Improbable Events etc.