Ghosh, Amitav.

Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh. - 1st American ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008. - 515 p. : map ; 22 cm.

"Originally published in 2008 by John Murray (Publishers), Great Britain"--T.p. verso.

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.

9780374174224 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0374174229 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2008030854


Schooners--Fiction.
Voyages and travels--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Travelers--Fiction.
Social classes--India--Fiction.
Opium trade--History--Fiction.


India--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PR9499.3.G536 / S43 2008

823/.914