Amitav Ghosh?

[Toby Levy]

I loved Sea of Poppies.

Toby

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:

>
> > On Dec 29, 2015, at 6:33 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > want to read one novel. any suggestions?
>
> Amitov Ghosh has written several goodies of historical fiction,  but The
> Ibis Trilogy, is far and away the best.  I’d say go ahead and read book 1,
> Sea of Poppies, and see what you think.  It’s  "about” the set-up for the
> 1st Opium War in the Calcutta- River Ganges and there’s a chunk which takes
> place on an island in the Indian Ocean.  This one was short-listed for the
> Booker Prize.  Book 2, River of Smoke - keeps the story going into the
> Opium War,  is almost as good - but I kind of fell down on book 3,  Flood
> of Fire, which develops the war itself,  because a several years had passed
> between readings and the story continues.  But all three have won their own
> awards and lots and lots of excellent reviews.
>
> Bek-
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