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I give a high place to Ghosh among contemporary English Authors from India. A saga of a ship, the Ibis, in the Indian Ocean and a beautiful depiction of local characters in a typical Indian way enthralled me and it kept me engaged with its characters and story. This is a sprawling novel and its histo Leggi tutto

It has been said that the Ibis, a seafaring schooner, bound from Baltimore to Calcutta and destined to transport opium to China lay at the heart of this story and while I agree that the Ibis is central to the tale being told, the true heart of this saga and what ultimately brings together a diverse

donald harington recommended this book to me and now that he's gone, i can't even talk about it with him, and that is what i was thinking the whole time i was reading this book. if i hadn't had to read it for school, i would have waited until the other two books in the trilogy were published, so i c Leggi tutto

Sjajan pisac, divan čovek i prelepa knjiga... Imala sam to zadovoljstvo da se dva puta sretnem s autorom, jednom na sajmu knjiga u Frankfurtu (kada sam kupila prava za njegove knjige) i kasnije na sajmu knjiga u Beogradu (kada već više nisam radila kod njegovog izdavača)... On toliko odiše toplinom Leggi tutto

The Opium Trade triangle (Britain-India-China) comes to life : Preamble : --I’m perpetually buried in nonfiction tomes. For me to try a new fiction, let alone a new trilogy, requires an exceptional confluence of interests. In this case: i) Opium Trade triangle : --This trilogy’s setting is the infamous Leggi tutto

"Sea of Poppies" is not just good, it is a perfect delight. And the first honest detailed story in my reader's century about how the British Empire got the world hooked on drug addiction. After all, it all started from somewhere: the Chinese opium wars, about which everyone, at least out of the corne Leggi tutto