Amitav Ghosh

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• Sea of Poppies

  Written in English

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  Sea of Poppies

  Sea of Poppies

  Amitav Ghosh · 52 when first published

  Novel · 515 pages · Historical, Migration · Ibis Trilogy, book 1

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1838, on the eve of the Opium Wars, a village widow, a ruined raja, a mixed-race American sailor and a French orphan find their way onto the Ibis, an old slave ship bound from Calcutta to Mauritius.