Sea Of Poppies (PB)
Paperback
Rs 788
| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language: | English |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780143066156 |
| ISBN10: | 0143066153 |
| Dimensions: | 5.04 x 7.8 x 1.38 inches |
| Weight: | 430.91 g |
| Published: | January 01, 2009 |
About the Book
Sea of Poppies is a stunningly vibrant and intensely human work that confirms Amitav Ghosh's reputation as a master storyteller. At the heart of this epic saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean to the Mauritius Islands. As to the people on board, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval in the mid-nineteenth century, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed village-woman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited European orphan. As they sail down the Hooghly and into the sea, their old family ties are washed away, and they view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers, who will build whole new lives for themselves in the remote islands where they are being taken. It is the beginning of an unlikely dynasty.