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Sea of Poppies

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First published: 2008
Pages: 399

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The opium filled novel Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh fans out by Amitav Ghosh in the backdrop of the world of the opium trade in British India of the nineteenth century. He depicts the story on the basis of one ship which is sailing through ocean towards Mauritius and main themes shown in the movie are colonialism, individuality and liberty. Ghosh has presented the turbulent period of the country through detailed planning with the help of feelings and emotions.

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Amitav Ghosh

Sea of Poppies (2008) opens in the poppy fields of Bihar and aboard the Ibis, a former slaving ship refitted to carry indentured labourers across the Indian Ocean in the years before Britain's first war with China. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and became the first volume of Amitav Ghosh's Ibis trilogy, closed in 2015 by Flood of Fire.