The poppy sea. Amitav Gosh

The first volume of the epic saga-trilogy, in the center of which the plexus of stories of various people. All their fate will be reduced on the schooner "Ibis", on which they will go into an unknown life. Coindled and lost everything, including honor, Indian Raja; Young and carefree French-clad; The Indian widow escaped from the burning rite; Sailor-American, who unexpectedly became an assistant captain; Apologist for a new religion. They all have to go through adventures full of dangers, tests and shocks before they decide to go aboard the Ibis. Behind the poppy plantations, the dangerous streets of Calcutta, wealth, power, humiliation, family will remain. Freedom becomes attracted to all of them from the previous bonds, hardships and misfortunes. The Makov Sea paradoxically combines the fascination of the Odyssey of Captain Bland Rafael Sabatini, the wisdom and depth of “Discharging of the Stone” by Abraham Verghese and the panoramicity of serious historical novels.