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Sea of poppies

Author

Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-

Title

Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh.

Format

Book

Edition

1st American ed.

Published

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Description

515 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Notes

"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

Summary

Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.

Subject headings

Schooners--Fiction. Voyages and travels--Fiction. Sailors--Fiction. Travelers--Fiction. Social classes--India--Fiction. Opium trade--History--Fiction. India--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.

Genre heading

Historical fiction.

ISBN

9780374174224 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374174229 (hardcover : alk. paper)