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The master storyteller returns . . .
With an epic work of exceptional beauty and power
Penguin Books India is delighted to publish the most eagrly awaited fiction title of the year-Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
Reviews of Sea of Poppies:
‘Ghosh’s well-crafted narrative pace intoxicates’
William Dalrymple, Outlook
‘If migration is the movement that animates history to the rhythm of the outcast’s heartbeat, Amitav Ghosh is its most elegant choreographer’
India Today
‘Sea of Poppies is riveting . . . [Ghosh] has gone from the highly readable to the unputdownable’
Khushwant Singh, Hindustan Times
‘Ghosh has written several acclaimed novels before but Sea of Poppies is indisputably [his] finest’
The Hindu
‘[Sea of Poppies] is utterly involving and piles on the tension until the very last page . . . The next volume cannot come too soon’
The Sunday Times (London)
‘Rich and panoramic, Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel sees this Indian author on masterly form . . . Lustrous’
The Economist
‘Sea of Poppies is a tremendous novel . . . [The] “Ibis” trilogy will surely come to be regarded as one of the masterpieces of twenty-first-century fiction’
The Literary Review
Sea of Poppies will be released in Paperback in June 2009.
With the publication of Sea of Poppies, all of Amitav Ghosh's remarkable backlist moves to Penguin as well, and is being reissued, in association with Ravi Dayal Publisher, in special hardback editions with stunning new jackets.
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Watch Amitav Ghosh as he reads an excerpt from Sea of Poppies, and discusses his new book in a recent television interview:
Excerpt read by Amitav Ghosh
Interview with Amitav Ghosh |
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