Critical Praise

"The seaboard sections rival those in Melville and Conrad, but the scenes ashore are equally gripping and one leaves this long page-turner wishing it could continue. One waits eagerly for its sequels. Sea of Poppies is a tremendous novel . . . [The] ‘Ibis’ trilogy will surely come to be regarded as one of the masterpieces of twenty-first-century fiction."

—John Thieme, The Literary Review

"[A] terrific novel . . . Ghosh provides the reader with all manner of stories, and equips himself with the personnel to man and navigate an old-fashioned literary three-decker . . . Yet for all its research, Sea of Poppies is full of the open air. It never, as the eighteenth century used to say, ‘smells of the lamp."

—James Buchan, The Guardian