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Finalist of the Man Booker International Prize 2015
Shortlisted for The Economist Crossword Book Award and the Man Asian Literary Award 2011
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
Sweeping across the currents of the Indian Ocean, onboard a vast ship Ibis, unfolds an epic saga about the Opium Wars between China and Britain. Bringing alive India’s vexed colonial past, this thrilling historical adventure journeys from the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the crowded waterways of nineteenth-century Canton to the blazing war fields of China. Enriched with breathtaking detail, an orchestra of pidgin words and a panorama of characters, the Ibis Trilogy is a triumph of literature.
Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Jun/2019
ISBN: 9780143427568
Length : 1728 Pages
MRP : ₹1399.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
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Imprint: India Penguin
Published: Jun/2019
ISBN: 9789353055806
Length : 1728 Pages
MRP : ₹1399.00
Finalist of the Man Booker International Prize 2015
Shortlisted for The Economist Crossword Book Award and the Man Asian Literary Award 2011
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008
Sweeping across the currents of the Indian Ocean, onboard a vast ship Ibis, unfolds an epic saga about the Opium Wars between China and Britain. Bringing alive India’s vexed colonial past, this thrilling historical adventure journeys from the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the crowded waterways of nineteenth-century Canton to the blazing war fields of China. Enriched with breathtaking detail, an orchestra of pidgin words and a panorama of characters, the Ibis Trilogy is a triumph of literature.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta in 1956. He grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. He studied at the universities of Delhi and Oxford and published the first of eight novels, The Circle of Reason, in 1986. The first novel in his Ibis trilogy, Sea of Poppies, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He received the Jnanpith Award in 2018.
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