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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2008
On Sale: October 14, 2008
528 pages
ISBN: 0374174229
EAN: 9780374174224
Hardcover
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize At the heart of this
vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a
tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to
fight China’s vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for
the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways,
coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate
has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and
Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman,
from a mulatto American freedman to a freespirited French
orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they,
like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves
as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is
born, which will span continents, races, and generations.
The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush
poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, the
exotic backstreets of Canton. But it is the panorama of
characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial
history of the East itself, that makes Sea of Poppies so
breathtakingly alive—a masterpiece from one of the world’s
finest novelists.
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