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Sea of Poppies
A Historical Fiction Novel by Amitav Ghosh
Book 1 of the The Ibis Trilogy Series
Subgenres:
- Colonial India,
- Maritime Historical Fiction,
- Ensemble Cast
This book is for you if you're into...
- Voyages with a wildly mixed crew thrown together by fate
- Colonial-era stories set across India, the Indian Ocean, and Canton
- Historical epics where strangers become found family
The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies centers on 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. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is a storm-tossed adventure.
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