Selections from the March 2009 Issue of World Literature Today
Discover standout reads from World Literature Today's March 2009 issue, featuring Amitav Ghosh's *Sea of Poppies*, Jonathan Carroll's *The Ghost in Love*, and *Absurdistan*. Explore curated global fiction and literary selections handpicked by experts.
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Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
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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The Ghost in Love
by Jonathan Carroll
The luminous and marvelously inventive world depicted in "The Ghost in Love" shows what happens when people discover that they have become the masters of their own fate.
