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| Original Title: | Sea of Poppies |
| ISBN: | 071956896X (ISBN13: 9780719568961) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.amitavghosh.com/seapoppies.html |
| Series: | Ibis Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Neel Rattan Halder, Zachary Reid, Paulette Lambert, Benjamin Burnham |
| Setting: | India |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2008), Indiaplaza Golden Quill Book Award for Best Novel / Popular Vote Award (2009), Crossword Book Award for Fiction (2008) |
Amitav Ghosh
Paperback | Pages: 513 pages Rating: 3.95 | 22359 Users | 2352 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Amitav Ghosh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 513 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2008 by John Murray Publisher (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. India. Asia. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
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This rollicking adventure story about colonial India was beaten to the 2008 Booker Prize by The White Tiger, a novel that trades on its gritty realism but which is actually just as much a fantasy of Indian life as this one. On the face of it, Sea of Poppies seems the more enjoyable. It has a huge, Dickensian cast that includes a fallen Rajah, a Chinese opium addict, a European girl gone native, a cross-dressing reincarnated saint, an American freedman and a poppy-farmer's widow, and its plotI had forgotten how annoyed I was at The Glass Palace; only to be remembered during Sea of Poppies.A group of random individuals end up on a former slave ship as it makes it way from India to China during the opening years of the Opium Wars, in the first half of the 19th century. It's a good yarn, although intended as the first in a series of three, don't expect anything like a complete story here - Amitav Ghosh practically lets you off mid-sentence.Whilst a colourful story, the characters are
I had forgotten how annoyed I was at The Glass Palace; only to be remembered during Sea of Poppies.A group of random individuals end up on a former slave ship as it makes it way from India to China during the opening years of the Opium Wars, in the first half of the 19th century. It's a good yarn, although intended as the first in a series of three, don't expect anything like a complete story here - Amitav Ghosh practically lets you off mid-sentence.Whilst a colourful story, the characters are
TransformationThis is the first epic instalment of the IBIS Trilogy. The story starts in 1838 on the eve of the first opium wars. Deeti is the central character of the story and she is the widow of an opium-addicted husband and avoids the immolation pyre (a tradition she should have undergone) to follow a vision of a journey on an ocean-going ship. The IBIS is that ship and she escapes her fate with help, to establish a new destiny in another land.On the Ibis' travels to recruit coolies from
The title of this book is so spot-on. While an interesting cast of characters populated the story of opium: from the empoverished villages of India, to the compromised users in China, with the movers and shakers of colonialism in between, only one element dictated the outcome, and that was poppies. These happy little flowers invaded every single aspect of land, sea and all things alive, even innocent animals. There was not a soul, psyche or physical body devoid of its impact in the nineteenth
This is quite a book and I have given it five stars because it is brilliant, well researched, beautifully written and right up there with some of the very best, similar in some ways, for example, to the Master and Commander series. However, I have a few observations and comments to make. The fat lady hasn't quite sung yet. 1. This is the first book in a trilogy. It ends with only two loose ends tied of dozens and dozens. There was some retribution in the end of the book but it came at a huge
I recently picked up a copy of the third in the Ibis Trilogy, Flood of Fire, and given it was about 6 years since I read Sea of Poppies, and perhaps 4 for River of Smoke, I thought I had better re-read these before the finale.I enjoy the writing of Amitav Ghosh a lot. I find his descriptive imagery builds up the setting and scenery as the story progresses excellent, and his depth of characters is great. While his writing s filled with words foreign to me - some common enough to be known, some
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