Sea of Poppies - Ibis Trilogy Condition:Very Good paradoxically

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confronts the persistent march of time

American journalist Christopher Lucas is investigating religious fanatics when he discovers a plot to bomb the sacred Temple Mount

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For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage

Sea of Poppies - Ibis Trilogy Condition:Very Good paradoxicallyAt 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