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SEA OF POPPIES - AMITAV GHOSH TASCHENBUCH

At the heart of this epic saga  set just before the Opium Wars  is an old slaving-ship  the
Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean  its crew a motley array of
sailors and stowaways  coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval  fate has thrown
together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners  from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed
villager  from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old
family ties are washed away they  like their historical counterparts  come to view themselves
as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born  which will span continents  races
and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the
Ganges  the rolling high seas  and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of
characters  whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself  which
makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive - a masterpiece from one of the world's finest
novelists.

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