Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher: Phoenix House
ISBN: 9780753813393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Hiran, born in the year of the Mutiny, is brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother and eventually his talent of reading a man's lies in his palm involves him in the affairs of his superior and his opium-addicted wife.
The Opium Clerk
Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297863681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An epic first novel chronicling the fortunes of the opium trade by a talented Indian writer 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. And he finds himself suddenly father to a half-caste son, the child abandoned by the Englishman and his wife when they fled back in disgrace to Britain. As Hiran dedicates himself to the education of his new son, the cycle of regeneration continues. Douglas, now an adult, neither black nor white, flees India himself for the Orient, again carried along on the flood of opium, this time to Borneo, to Sarawak: the land of the White Rajahs.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297863681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
An epic first novel chronicling the fortunes of the opium trade by a talented Indian writer 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. And he finds himself suddenly father to a half-caste son, the child abandoned by the Englishman and his wife when they fled back in disgrace to Britain. As Hiran dedicates himself to the education of his new son, the cycle of regeneration continues. Douglas, now an adult, neither black nor white, flees India himself for the Orient, again carried along on the flood of opium, this time to Borneo, to Sarawak: the land of the White Rajahs.
The Opium Clerk
Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher: Phoenix House
ISBN: 9780753813393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Hiran, born in the year of the Mutiny, is brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother and eventually his talent of reading a man's lies in his palm involves him in the affairs of his superior and his opium-addicted wife.
Publisher: Phoenix House
ISBN: 9780753813393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Hiran, born in the year of the Mutiny, is brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother and eventually his talent of reading a man's lies in his palm involves him in the affairs of his superior and his opium-addicted wife.
National Drug Clerk
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The Ceylon Blue Book
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Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Author: Oregon
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
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The Bradys and the Opium Dens; Or, Trapping the Crooks of Chinatown
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Agricultural chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Pages : 830
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Pages : 830
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The Codes and Statutes of Oregon
Author: Oregon
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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The American Drug Clerks Journal
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Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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