She keeps house and assists with the poppy crop, while her husband works in Ghazipur’s opium factory. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes.In Sea of Poppies (2008), readers first meet Deeti, who lives on the outskirts of Ghazipur, fifty miles east of Benares.

Sea of Poppies is marvelous, its range and authority astonishing.' - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) ' Sea of Poppies is a veritable cauldron of energy intermingling with craft.' - Chicago Sun-TimesĪbout the Author AMITAV GHOSH is the internationally bestselling author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Glass Palace, The Great Derangement, and the Ibis Trilogy ( Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire). Ghosh writes with impeccable control, and with a vivid and sometimes surprising imagination.' - The New Yorker 'Ghosh, on behalf of history, is unforgiving, but his novel is also a delight.' - Miami Herald 'A storm tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott.' - Vogue 'Amitav Ghosh's new novel speaks in tongues, marvelously capturing the polyglot nature of its characters. descriptions bring a lost world to life.' - The Washington Post 'Brilliant.By the book's stormy and precarious ending, most readers will clutch it like the ship's rail awaiting, just like Ghosh's characters, the rest of the voyage to a destination unknown.' - USA Today 'Ghosh's best and most ambitious work yet. 'A wonderful book, a large ambitious novel in which extraordinary people come to life and vibrant, exotic places are memorably depicted.' - The Rocky Mountain News 'A delight. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is 'a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott' ( Vogue ). The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration-and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment' ( The Observer ). The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is 'a remarkably rich saga.

About the Book At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the 'Ibis,' whose destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, and whose purpose is to fight China's vicious 19th-century Opium Wars.

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