- Opium trade, Cyclones, Sailors, Social classes
In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind.
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Earnest, grave, epic and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Amitav Ghosh
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 522
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Palaver Press, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- German, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780719568985
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