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May 1, 2008 · His most recent novel, Sea of Poppies, is the first volume of the Ibis Trilogy. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He studied in Dehra Dun, New Delhi, Alexandria and Oxford and his first job was at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi. He earned a doctorate at Oxford before he wrote his first novel, which was published in 1986.
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Sea of Poppies. Written by Amitav Ghosh Review by India Edghill. An epic tale of the opium trade in 1838 and its far-reaching effects, Sea of Poppies is a book of amazing skill and scope. Following the fates of a wildly diverse caste of characters, from an American freedman passing as white to an Indian widow who escaped from her husband’s ...
Nov 28, 2008 · In his ambitious new novel, “Sea of Poppies,” a finalist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, Amitav Ghosh attempts to fill in the blanks left by the archives. Set partly in Bengal, the scene ...
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Aug 24, 2017 · Previous. Sea of Poppies, the first novel of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy, has all the credentials of a major literary work. It is an historical novel where disparate characters, trapped by the confines of class, caste, race, religion, gender, addiction or sexuality, fight for the opportunity to escape, transform and find independence.
Packing a wildly varied cast of characters and all of their stories on board a ship and expecting it to stay afloat through 500 pages seems a dangerous proposition for a novel. With Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh proves it can also be a brilliant one. In a thoroughly enjoyable blend of historical fiction, comedy of manners, linguistic play, and ...
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Sea of Poppies is book one of Indian author Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Ibis is the name of an old slaving ship which is a key part of the story (though by no means all the action is set there). The other books in the trilogy are River of Smoke (recommended by economic historian Emma Rothschild) and ...
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Nov 28, 2008 · Sea of Poppies. The New York Times – Sunday Book Review By GAIUTRA BAHADUR Published: November 28, 2008. In 1883, the British government sent the accomplished linguist Sir George Grierson to look into alleged abuses in the recruitment of indentured servants from India (known as “coolies”) who ended up on ships bound for British plantations throughout the world.
