- Booker Prize 2008 · Shortlist
Sea of Poppies
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh (born 1956)
English editions
Written in EnglishSea of Poppies
John Murray · United Kingdom · 18 January 2024 · Paperback
Sea of Poppies
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · October 2008 · Hardcover · 515 pages
Sea of Poppies
John Murray · United Kingdom · 2008 · 471 pages
Sea of Poppies
Picador · United States · 2009 · Paperback · 543 pages
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On the eve of the Opium Wars, the Ibis, a former slaving ship now owned by Benjamin Burnham, an evangelical English opium trader, is made ready to carry indentured labourers and convicts from Calcutta to Mauritius. The novel follows the people who end up on board: Deeti, a woman from the poppy fields along the Ganges who flees her husband's family; Neel Rattan Halder, a raja ruined by Burnham and sentenced to transportation; Zachary Reid, a young American freedman of mixed race who passes for white and becomes second mate; and Paulette, a French orphan who escapes Burnham's household in disguise. As caste, race and old family ties fall away at sea, they come to see themselves as ship-brothers.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Historical, Migration (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- India, 1838
- Series
- Ibis Trilogy, book 1
- First published
- 2008
- Author's age
- 52 when first published
- ISBN
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9780374174224 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9780719568954 (John Murray, United Kingdom)
9780312428594 (Picador, United States)
9780719568978 (John Murray, United Kingdom)
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