Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2009-06
Type: BOOK
Sea of Poppies is a stunningly vibrant and intensely human work that confirms Amitav Ghosh's reputation as a master storyteller.
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2009-12-01
Type: BOOK
Sea. of. Poppies. One of the poorest countries in the world, Afghanistan has been torn by war and insurgency since 1979. In the process, it has become the ultimate example of the “narco-state.” In 2007 opium production climbed to a ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-17
Type: BOOK
Like Sacred Hunger, Sea of Poppies is broadly “realist” in its mode: it eschews the kinds of fragmentation, temporal disjunction, and metafictionality of modernist or postmodern representation; and it aims at that comprehensive account ...
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-03-12
Type: BOOK
Afghanistan now produces the poppies to supply Europe's heroin. But two centuries ago it was British fortune seekers in India who turned the banks of the Ganges into a sea of poppies and tried to force refined opium on the reluctant ...