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Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford, has taught at a number of institutions and written for many magazines. The other novels in the Ibis trilogy are River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. In 2015, Amitav Ghosh was named as a finalist of the Man Booker International Prize.
Praise for Sea of Poppies
A tremendous novel, and if Amitav Ghosh can sustain its brilliance in the
...achar he would eat at midday. Once his meal had been wrapped and packed, she broke off to pay a quick visit to her shrine room: later, after sheÆd bathed and changed, Deeti would do a proper puja, with flowers and offerings; now, being clothed still in her night-time sari, she merely stopped at the door, to join her hands in a brief genuflection.
Soon a squeaking wheel announced the arrival of the oxcart that would take Hukam Singh to the factory where he worked, in Ghazipur, three miles away.
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