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Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
"No matter how hard the times at home may have been, in the ashes of every past there were a few cinders of memory that glowed with warmth."
Sea of Poppies is the first book of the Ibis Trilogy. Set just before the Opium War, the story revolves around those on-board the the ship, Ibis. That includes a French girl impersonating a native, a woman who ran away from her sati pyre with a man of a lower caste, a zeminder who lost his estate to a British official and is now a prisoner, a Chinese convict, and many more such interesting characters.
Amitav Ghosh has a way of writing which makes you empathize with the character. I could feel immense anguish and grief as I read along. Sea of Poppies isn't one of those fast paced books. The chapters don't end with cliffhangers and it's not a page turner. Rather it is like one of those classics, which are tedious to read. The bare truth is presented in front of us which also makes it difficult to digest. It brings afloat all those feelings which we keep bottled up and dance merrily through life.
But just like the quote I started the post with, inspite of all its atrocities, history has its own warmth. Love, longing and passion, Sea of Poppies bares all of it for us to feel.
Sea of Poppies is the first book of the Ibis Trilogy. Set just before the Opium War, the story revolves around those on-board the the ship, Ibis. That includes a French girl impersonating a native, a woman who ran away from her sati pyre with a man of a lower caste, a zeminder who lost his estate to a British official and is now a prisoner, a Chinese convict, and many more such interesting characters.
Amitav Ghosh has a way of writing which makes you empathize with the character. I could feel immense anguish and grief as I read along. Sea of Poppies isn't one of those fast paced books. The chapters don't end with cliffhangers and it's not a page turner. Rather it is like one of those classics, which are tedious to read. The bare truth is presented in front of us which also makes it difficult to digest. It brings afloat all those feelings which we keep bottled up and dance merrily through life.
But just like the quote I started the post with, inspite of all its atrocities, history has its own warmth. Love, longing and passion, Sea of Poppies bares all of it for us to feel.