Opium
Publisher: Seuil
Published: November 22, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9782020372008
First sentence: The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum-the poppy that brings sleep, the source of the "drowsy syrup" in Shakespeare's Othello-is the beautiful flower that answers Farrere's desperate question of where to find his precious opium.