The author's attention to period detail brings a lost world to life. AT THE FAIR Amitav Ghosh appears at 2 p.m. Sunday with Junot Diaz and Austin C. Clarke in the Auditorium. SEA OF POPPIES. Amitav Ghosh. Farrar Straus Giroux. 515 pages. $26. Over the last two decades, the Indian author Amitav Ghosh has established himself as a writer of uncommon talent who combines literary flair with a rare seriousness of purpose. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, seemed much in the Rushdie magical-realist tradition, but he has evolved considerably since then, notably in works like The Shadow Lines and more recently The Glass Palace, which deal movingly and powerfully with the dislocations of post-imperial politics in Bengal and Burma. Sea of Poppies, his sixth novel (and the first of a projected trilogy), marks both a departure and an...
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