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       Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies   
    
 India, 1838. The opium business is booming, and drug money fills the British Empire’s coffers, offsetting a trade imbalance created by imports of Chinese tea and silk. But now the emperor wants the drug trade stopped.  
    
    
     
    
 
    
    
    
    
    
      A flashy, ludicrous threequel  
    
 Lines like “I will crush any idea of freedom!” may or may not be intended to reflect current Chinese leadership. 
    
    
     
    
 
 
 
        
        
     
 
    
        
        
            
        
        
    
        
	
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