Amitav Ghosh

Sea of Poppies

Opium trade sweeps across Indian Ocean with vast human consequences

About the author

Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh

Indian novelist whose Ibis Trilogy reconstructs the nineteenth-century opium trade with extraordinary historical imagination. His work bridges the literary novel and historical epic. He is one of the most internationally celebrated Indian writers in English.

More by Amitav Ghosh