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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
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- ISBN
- 0374174229
- Book Title
- Sea of Poppies
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 27.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2008 A Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2008 A Washington Post Best Book of 2008 An Economist Best Book of 2008 A New York Best Book of 2008 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2008 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis . Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its purpose, to fight China's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a freespirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais , or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races, and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, the exotic backstreets of Canton. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, that makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive-a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374174229
ISBN-13
9780374174224
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66020198
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sea of Poppies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
BK. 1
Lc Classification Number
Pr9499.3.G536s43
Reviews
"Ghosh's best and most ambitious work yet. . . Ghosh writes with impeccable control, and with a vivid and sometimes surprising imagination." -The New Yorker "Over the last two decades, the Indian author Amitav Ghosh has established himself asa writer of uncommon talent who combines literary flair with a rare seriousness of purpose. . . [Sea of Poppies] sees Ghosh painting upon a larger canvas than ever before, with a multitude of characters and an epic vision . . . One does not need the impressive bibliography of sources at the end to be struck by the wealth of period detail the author commands.His descriptions bring a lost world to life, from the evocatively imagined opium factory, the intricacies of women's costumes and the lovingly enumerated fare on the opulent dining tables of the era, to the richly detailed descriptions of theIbisand its journey." -Shashi Tharoor,The Washington Post Book World"[A] sprawling and rather wonderful new historical novel. . . Ghosh has done an extraordinary amount of research and possesses the deep dramatic sense that makes what he knows plausible . . . Ghosh's own beautifully made sentences and paragraphs buoy up ship, plot, characters and the setting itself with a natural ease and beauty." -Alan Cheuse,San Francisco Chronicle"Ghosh conjures up each character with alacrity, fixing even minor players in the reader's mind with a few deft words . . . The narrative rolls along to the rhythms of the sea, seasoned with salty language and bawdy badinage . . . This is a deeply old-fashioned novel, unburdened by post-modern trickery and driven by plot devices that Robert Louis Stevenson would have loved: Grudges must be avenged, debts paid off, pasts hidden." -Hephzibah Anderson,Bloomberg "Withebullient energy and ingenious plotting, Ghosh assembles a cast of characters whose destinies converge on a single vessel . . .This page-turner also bristles with intriguing historical detail. . . [Ghosh] has createda rollicking romantic adventure." -Maya Jaggi,Bookforum"The cast is marvelous and the plot majestically serpentine,but the real hero is the English language,which has rarely felt so alive and vibrant." -Publishers Weekly(starred review)"In vivid settings ranging from the hellish precincts of an enormous opium factory, to absurdly lavish upper-class households, to theIbis' grim hold, Ghosh unfurls tales of betrayal and tyranny, revelation and transformation, while reveling in the mischievous inventiveness of a bawdy polyglot lingo favored by sailors on Eastern seas. With intimations of Dickens and Melville, Ghosh's vital saga encompasses suspense and satire, perverse cruelty and profound kindness, and the countless ways humans conceal desire and fear behind arrogance and brutality." -Donna Seaman,Booklist"Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer's fine touch. . . The density of settings, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory, is historically convincing, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech . . . Planned as the first of a trilogy, thisastonishing,mesmerizinglaunch will be hard to top." -Kirkus Reviews(starred review)"First, on the side of entertainment, it isa nautical yarn, brimming with enough fo'c'sles and jibs and fife rails to satisfy the salty cravings of the Patrick O'Brian crowd. Second, its characters are brightly, if broadly drawn; there are good guys to root for, "Over the last two decades, the Indian author Amitav Ghosh has established himself asa writer of uncommon talent who combines literary flair with a rare seriousness of purpose. . . [Sea of Poppies] sees Ghosh painting upon a larger canvas than ever before, with a multitude of characters and an epic vision . . . One does not need the impressive bibliography of sources at the end to be struck by the wealth of period detail the author commands.His descriptions bring a lost world to life, from the evocatively imagined opium factory, the intricacies of women's costumes and the lovingly enumerated fare on the opulent dining tables of the era, to the richly detailed descriptions of theIbisand its journey." -Shashi Tharoor,The Washington Post Book World"[A] sprawling and rather wonderful new historical novel. . . Ghosh has done an extraordinary amount of research and possesses the deep dramatic sense that makes what he knows plausible . . . Ghosh's own beautifully made sentences and paragraphs buoy up ship, plot, characters and the setting itself with a natural ease and beauty." -Alan Cheuse,San Francisco Chronicle"Ghosh conjures up each character with alacrity, fixing even minor players in the reader's mind with a few deft words . . . The narrative rolls along to the rhythms of the sea, seasoned with salty language and bawdy badinage . . . This is a deeply old-fashioned novel, unburdened by post-modern trickery and driven by plot devices that Robert Louis Stevenson would have loved: Grudges must be avenged, debts paid off, pasts hidden." -Hephzibah Anderson,Bloomberg"The cast is marvelous and the plot majestically serpentine,but the real hero is the English language,which has rarely felt so alive and vibrant." -Publishers Weekly(starred review)"In vivid settings ranging from the hellish precincts of an enormous opium factory, to absurdly lavish upper-class households, to theIbis' grim hold, Ghosh unfurls tales of betrayal and tyranny, revelation and transformation, while reveling in the mischievous inventiveness of a bawdy polyglot lingo favored by sailors on Eastern seas. With intimations of Dickens and Melville, Ghosh's vital saga encompasses suspense and satire, perverse cruelty and profound kindness, and the countless ways humans conceal desire and fear behind arrogance and brutality." -Donna Seaman,Booklist"Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer's fine touch. . . The density of settings, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory, is historically convincing, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech . . . Planned as the first of a trilogy, thisastonishing,mesmerizinglaunch will be hard to top." -Kirkus Reviews(starred review)"First, on the side of entertainment, it isa nautical yarn, brimming with enough fo'c'sles and jibs and fife rails to satisfy the salty cravings of the Patrick O'Brian crowd. Second, its characters are brightly, if broadly drawn; there are good guys to root for and bad guys to hiss . . .Sea of Poppiesis drunk on languageor, rather, on two languages . . . The two lingoes combine into a Joycean cacophony that testifies to the fecund energy of English at its fringes and borders . . . [A] jolly outing." -Laura Miller,Salon's "Must Read""Fiction set on the high seas has long mixed tense adventure with intelligent drama: ThinkThe Odyssey,Treasure IslandandMoby Dick. You can now add to this listS, "The cast is marvelous and the plot majestically serpentine, but the real hero is the English language, which has rarely felt so alive and vibrant." -Publishers Weekly(starred review)"In vivid settings ranging from the hellish precincts of an enormous opium factory, to absurdly lavish upper-class households, to theIbis' grim hold, Ghosh unfurls tales of betrayal and tyranny, revelation and transformation, while reveling in the mischievous inventiveness of a bawdy polyglot lingo favored by sailors on Eastern seas. With intimations of Dickens and Melville, Ghosh's vital saga encompasses suspense and satire, perverse cruelty and profound kindness, and the countless ways humans conceal desire and fear behind arrogance and brutality." -Donna Seaman,Booklist"Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer's fine touch . . . The density of settings, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory, is historically convincing, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech . . . Planned as the first of a trilogy, this astonishing, mesmerizing launch will be hard to top." -Kirkus Reviews(starred review)"[A] remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration-and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment." -Adam Mars-Jones,The Observer(London)"India in the 1830s is wonderfully evoked-the smells, rituals and squalor . . . Coarseness and violence, cruelty and fatalism, are relieved with flashes of emotion and kindness. [Sea of Poppies] is no anti-colonial rant or didactic tableau but the story of men and women of all races and castes, cooped up on a voyage across the 'Black Water' that strips them of dignity and ends in storm . . . It is profoundly moving." -Michael Binyon,The Times(London)"[A] terrific novel . . . In bringing his troupe of characters to Calcutta . . . Ghosh provides the reader with all manner of stories, and equips himself with the personnel to man and navigate an old-fashioned literary three-decker . . . Yet for all its research,Seaof Poppiesis full of the open air. It never, as the eighteenth century used to say, 'smells of the lamp.' " -James Buchan,The Guardian"The seaboard sections rival those in Melville and Conrad, but the scenes ashore are equally gripping and one leaves this long page-turner wishing it could continue . . .Sea of Poppiesis a tremendous novel . . . [The] 'Ibis' trilogy will surely come to be regarded as one of the masterpieces of twenty-first-century fiction." -John Thieme,TheLiterary Review"Hugely entertaining . . . Glorious babel of a novel . . . Carried along by the sheer energy of the narrative, most readers will soon tune in to this marvelously inventive lingo . . . [Sea of Poppies] is utterly involving and piles on the tension until the very last page . . . The next volume cannot come too soon." -Peter Parker,The Sunday Times(London)"Bedazzling . . . Amitav Ghosh'sSea of Poppies, the first volume in his 'Ibis trilogy,' revisits in new, breathtakingly detailed and compelling ways some of the concerns of his earlier novels . . . We [await] with eagerness the second volume of the trilogy." -Shirley Chew,The Independent"Sea of Poppiesis bathed in rich vernacular . . . [It] is a thoroughly readable romp of a novel, filled with excellent set pieces, comic digressions (especial, "The cast is marvelous and the plot majestically serpentine, but the real hero is the English language, which has rarely felt so alive and vibrant." -Publishers Weekly(starred review) "[A] remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration-and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment." -Adam Mars-Jones,The Observer(London) "India in the 1830s is wonderfully evoked-the smells, rituals and squalor . . . Coarseness and violence, cruelty and fatalism, are relieved with flashes of emotion and kindness. [Sea of Poppies] is no anti-colonial rant or didactic tableau but the story of men and women of all races and castes, cooped up on a voyage across the 'Black Water' that strips them of dignity and ends in storm . . . It is profoundly moving." -Michael Binyon,The Times(London) "[A] terrific novel . . . In bringing his troupe of characters to Calcutta . . . Ghosh provides the reader with all manner of stories, and equips himself with the personnel to man and navigate an old-fashioned literary three-decker . . . Yet for all its research,Seaof Poppiesis full of the open air. It never, as the eighteenth century used to say, 'smells of the lamp.' " -James Buchan,The Guardian "The seaboard sections rival those in Melville and Conrad, but the scenes ashore are equally gripping and one leaves this long page-turner wishing it could continue . . .Sea of Poppiesis a tremendous novel . . . [The] 'Ibis' trilogy will surely come to be regarded as one of the masterpieces of twenty-first-century fiction." -John Thieme,TheLiterary Review "Hugely entertaining . . . Glorious babel of a novel . . . Carried along by the sheer energy of the narrative, most readers will soon tune in to this marvelously inventive lingo . . . [Sea of Poppies] is utterly involving and piles on the tension until the very last page . . . The next volume cannot come too soon."-Peter Parker,The Sunday Times(London) "Bedazzling . . . Amitav Ghosh'sSea of Poppies, the first volume in his 'Ibis trilogy,' revisits in new, breathtakingly detailed and compelling ways some of the concerns of his earlier novels . . . We [await] with eagerness the second volume of the trilogy." -Shirley Chew,The Independent "Seaof Poppiesis bathed in rich vernacular . . . [It] is a thoroughly readable romp of a novel, filled with excellent set pieces, comic digressions (especially its comedies of manners), love interest, subterfuge and betrayal. We are left thirsty for more." -Toby Lichtig,New Statesman "Epic . . . Each scene is boldly drawn,, "A writer of supreme skill and intelligence. " -The Atlantic Monthly "Such is the power of Ghosh's precise, understated prose that one occasionally wishes to turn the pages three at a time, eager to find out where Ghosh's tale is headed." -Thrity Umrigar,The Boston Globe
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-030854
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Ibis Trilogy
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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