
Sea of Poppies
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Narrado por:
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Kish Sharma
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De:
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Amitav Ghosh
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts.
In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations.
The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive - a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists.
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Overly melodramatic
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amazing!
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It gives a good impression of how it was to live in the far east under the British empire from the 19th century.
Excellent book.
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Rich, Panoramic and an absolute Epic.
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Excellent story, gripping narration
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Would you consider the audio edition of Sea of Poppies to be better than the print version?
Haven't read the printWhat did you like best about this story?
The flow and the life-like description of the charactersWhat about Kish Sharma’s performance did you like?
The characters' accentsAny additional comments?
Kish at times read too fast to follow.Wonderful listen 4 a fast ear
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What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Well it's not clear if the recording process was faulty or whether the story actually concludes with the lifeboat leaving in a storm with several main characters on board while several other main characters remain on the ship in various states of unresolved dubious action, but it could have got to maybe 2.5 stars if all this was concluded in some way.What could Amitav Ghosh have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Make the author sit down and do a serious self critique of his work, modify his objectives in favour of producing a cohesive plausible narrative with consistent characterization, and give it more time, more thought and much hard work rewriting and condensing.Would you listen to another book narrated by Kish Sharma?
Yes the narration was very good considering the overblown nonsense that the book gradually decended to, and the narrator probably can't be blamed for overdoing it somewhat.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The commencement of the book was excellent The early development of the characters and their origins and the narrative was fine up to maybe one third of the way through. The ingredients were there for a great novel, if only it had continued in that way. Unfortunately the author became overwhelmed by his own characters and quite literally lost the plot.Any additional comments?
Please convey my comments for what they are worth to the author because in my opinion the author does have talent - currently wasting it.good beginning gradually decays to nonsense
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