The holy waters of the Ganges, the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean. Endless fields of poppies and winding dirt roads, dotted with villas and temples, the human and religious melting pot of simmering Calcutta ... All this and much more is the stage where confl uence the multifaceted human group that makes up the universe of Sea of Poppies, a novel that takes us into the Asian colonial world of the nineteenth century, at the same time to forge a war with China and peep big changes for the East India Company and the established social order in India.