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Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh.

Ghosh, Amitav. (Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374174224
  • ISBN: 0374174229
  • Physical Description: 515 pages : map ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First American edition
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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General Note:
"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--title page verso.
Subject: 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: Historical fiction.

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