![]() The new owners of the Ibis plan to put her to a new use – shipping opium from India to China. A former blackbirder, a slave ship, the Ibis is not swift enough to evade the British Navy ships on the west coast of Africa now that the slave trade has been abolished. In 1838, the Ibis, a two-masted schooner, arrives on the east coast of India. But despite this apparent complexity, and the fact that it benefits from thorough research, Sea of Poppies is highly ‘readable’ and has all the page-turning qualities of a good-old-fashioned yarn. It is an historical novel where disparate characters, trapped by the confines of class, caste, race, religion, gender, addiction or sexuality, fight for the opportunity to escape, transform and find independence. ![]() Sea of Poppies, the first novel of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy, has all the credentials of a major literary work. ![]()
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