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Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
398 pages, color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in...
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