TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Ghosh, Amitav
TI  - Sea of poppies
SN  - 9780143424703
AV  - PR9499 
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Gurugaon
PB  - Penguin Random House India
N2  - Sea of Poppies, a novel by Amitav Ghosh published in 2008, tells the intertwining stories of several people who find themselves aboard the Ibis, a former slave ship, in the early 19th century. The principal characters are aboard the ship under varying and more and less desirable circumstances, and employing varying levels of deception. The novel takes place shortly before the First Opium War, and its major themes are of imperialism and colonialism under a backdrop of drug smuggling and human trafficking by the hands of the British in India and (though largely unseen) China.
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