Sea of Poppies
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- John Murray
- Year
- 2008
- ISBN-13
- 9780719568961
- Genre
- FictionFiction
- Topics
- Opium WarscolonialismFound familyMigration and displacement
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(2008)
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