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Available
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Description
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
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Original publication date
2008-10
Awards
Booker Prize (Longlist — 2008)
Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2010)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize (Longlist — Fiction — 2009)
British Book Design and Production Award (Literature — 2008)
Crossword Book Award (Winner — English Fiction — 2008)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Fiction — 2008)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction — 2008)
Christian Science Monitor Best Book (Fiction — 2008)