Amitav Ghosh

In contemporary times, Amitav Ghosh’s 2008 Booker nominated novel Sea of Poppies captures how a voyage of the East India Company ship Ibis travelling from India to Mauritius has characters from diverse social milieu who recognise themselves as jahaj bhais.

Salman Rushdie's best book

Sea of Poppies is Salman Rushdie's best book.

a storm-tossed event important of Sir Walter Scott' (Vogue)

With a landscape of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial background of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is 'a storm-tossed event important of Sir Walter Scott' (Vogue).

a novel but also set during the Opium Wars mostly in India

“Sea of Poppies” by Amitva Ghosh (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008) is a novel set during the Opium Wars mostly in India but also in China that was shortlisted listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Goran Simic's latest novel

Goran Simic's latest novel, Sea Of Poppies, is the first part of a proposed trilogy, and deals with indentured migrant workers in the 1830s, replacing African slaves after the abolition of the slave trade.

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The French poet Stanislas de Guaita, an expert on esotericism and European mysticism, published a collection of poems in 1883 entitled The Dark Muse, and penned a poem in honour of the opium poppy:

Dr Ghosh

Dr Ghosh is the author of works such as the Booker prize-nominated Sea of Poppies, and Dr Ghosh's works have been translated into over 30 languages.

the second in Orville Schell's Ibis trilogy, which began with Sea of Poppies(shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize)

The book is the second in Orville Schell's Ibis trilogy, which began with Sea of Poppies(shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize) and which continues to follow the lives of characters variously connected to the nineteenth-century opium trade.

Myla Goldberg's previous piece, The Seas,

, was a fabulist meditation on Nikola Tesla; Myla Goldberg's previous piece, The Seas, was similarly inventive.

Amitava Ghosh’s

Incidentally, a (fiction) book that extensively uses Anglo-Indian dialects is Amitava Ghosh’s exceptional novel “Sea of Poppies” (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Poppies-Amitav-Ghosh/dp/B004KAB2YE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313781342&sr=8-1).

Tommy Mackem

Tommy Mackem wrote the sea, inspired by Tommy Mackem's beloved Northern Irish town.

Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 hit novel

Described as a “rustic spin-off” of its sister venue, THE SEA is once again inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 hit novel

written by Debbie Friedman

The song, written by Debbie Friedman, is inspired by a passage in the Torah that states that Miriam led all the Jewish women in ''the song of the sea'' after the Israelites' escape.

Primo Levi

The titles come from well-known books such as George Orwell’s 1984, Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea , Primo Levi’s