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The Opium Clerk

by Kunal Basu

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ISBN13: 9781861591906
ISBN10: 186159190x
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Hiran is born in 1857—the year of the Mutiny and the year his father dies. Brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother, he has few talents apart from an uncanny ability to read a man’s lies in his palm. When luck gets him a job at an auction house, Hiran finds himself embroiled in a mysterious trade and in the affairs of his nefarious superior, Mr. Jonathan Crabbe, and his opium-addicted wife.

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Kunal Basu's panoramic first novel follows the vagaries of Hiran's life, and the flow of the opium trade, from Calcutta to Canton. Disguised as a missionary, he survives cholera, piracy and war in China, arriving back in India to find his homeland on the verge of another rebellion.
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ISBN:
9781861591906
Author:
BASU, KUNAL
Publisher:
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Location:
London
Subject:
Adult
Subject:
Opium trade
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
History
Subject:
Historical - General
Copyright:
2001
Series Volume:
00-289
Publication Date:
May 2002
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
312
Dimensions:
198 x 132 in.
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