Tag Archive | Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies, much like Glass Palace, is what one might call post-colonial recovery fiction, a novel that not only takes on the British colonial system with all its prejudices and injustices, but seeks to recover or reimagine the lives of people who left no records. In doing so Ghosh [...]
Amitav Ghosh On The CBC
The Millions points to an Amitav Ghosh interview on the CBC. Considering I have just finished Sea of Poppies, it is well timed.
Amitav Ghosh at Elliott Bay Books
Last night I had the opportunity to go to a reading by Amitav Ghosh at Elliot Bay Books where he read from his new book, Sea of Poppies. He read a long and funny passage from the book the that was part political discussion about the rightness of the opium trade and part comedy of [...]
