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"Sea of Poppies" is a historical fiction novel set in early 19th-century India and the British Empire. It is the first book in the Ibis Trilogy, which follow...
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Amitav Ghosh visits Google's Seattle, WA office to discuss his book "Sea of Poppies." This event took place on November 14, 2008, as part of the Authors@Goog...
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May 27, 2015 · Award-winning author Amitav Ghosh talks about the background to his iconic Ibis Trilogy. The Ibis Trilogy consists of the Booker nominated 'Sea of Poppies', ...
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Apr 13, 2020 · Amitav Ghosh was born in India and educated in Delhi and at Oxford. He's the author of many award winning novels, as well as non-fiction and essays. The first book in his new trilogy is "Sea of Poppies." Ghosh tells Jim Fleming that English has been a global language for 200 years and cites some of the many Asian words that have long been in ...
Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of the Ibis trilogy . In the words of Rajnish Mishra, "the Ibis trilogy is Ghosh's most vehement indictment of the source of imperialism and colonialism."
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Nov 28, 2008 · Sea of Poppies is bathed in rich vernacular; Ghosh is unstinting in his use of lexical obscu rities, having raided dictionaries of nautical jargon and 19th-century Hinglish. We encounter cutwater, fang and bowsprit; taliyamar, fana, pulwar and pateli.
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Dec 23, 2020 · Sea of Poppies, the first novel in Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, goes to the heart of the British Empire with a tale of intrigue and romance on the eve of the Opium Wars. Featuring a diverse cast of...
