Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297863681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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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.
The Bradys and the Opium Smugglers; Or, A Hot Trail on the Pacific Coast
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Parliamentary Papers Relating to the Opium Trade
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Category : Opium trade
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category : Opium trade
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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The Codes and General Laws of Oregon
Author: Oregon
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Reports on the Administration of the Excise Dept. [Abkari and Opium] in the Bombay Presidency, Sind, and Aden
Author: Bombay (India : State). Excise Dept
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Reports on the Administration of the Excise Department (abkari and Opium) in the Bombay Presidency, Sind, and Aden for the Financial Year ...
Author: Bombay (India : State). Excise Department
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Category : Alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Alcoholic beverages
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Ceylon Blue Book
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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The Opium Eaters
Author: Harold Bergsma
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438965893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Opium Eaters is the culminating novel of this trilogy. The first, One Way to Pakistan, is a gripping story of corruption and crime in Pakistan in which three women are abducted and how their lives are shattered. In the second novel, An Oath of Vengeance, Maria, the wife of an American doctor, Chamuck a tribal girl from Peshawar and Ankh struggle with terror and shame in their personal lives, being no more than chattel to their abductors. Braving death they seek their own ways to escape from their tormentors. Quotes from Readers While reading Harold's remarkable- Opium Eaters- which happens to be the final novel to the three part saga (One Way to Pakistan, Oath of Vengeance and Opium Eaters), I was quite taken by his depth of knowledge of Muslim Culture. In fact in the third novel Opium Eaters Harold showed how opium provides funds for the Taliban's war against America and their imposition of democracy on Afghanistan. It reveals the frustrations of the Americans who are unable to destroy the opium smuggling from the root source- the tribal areas of Afghanistan to the Ports of Pakistan. "His books...a marvelous read...show us a world we generally get to read about but rarely are a part of." Deepti Lamba, editor for Desicritics, Things that Bang. "In his novel, An Oath of Vengeance, Harold Bergsma weaves a literary web which snares genre-junkies, mystery-lovers and hopeless romantics. This novel's erratic plotline and scandalously intriguing characters will leave readers yearning for book three (Opium Eaters) to hit the shelves." Stuart A Chipman, Valley Vanguard Weekly Columnist, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan. Harold Bergsma's An Oath of Vengeance received a Notable Award Certificate in Writer's Digest 16th Annual International Self-Published Book awards
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438965893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Opium Eaters is the culminating novel of this trilogy. The first, One Way to Pakistan, is a gripping story of corruption and crime in Pakistan in which three women are abducted and how their lives are shattered. In the second novel, An Oath of Vengeance, Maria, the wife of an American doctor, Chamuck a tribal girl from Peshawar and Ankh struggle with terror and shame in their personal lives, being no more than chattel to their abductors. Braving death they seek their own ways to escape from their tormentors. Quotes from Readers While reading Harold's remarkable- Opium Eaters- which happens to be the final novel to the three part saga (One Way to Pakistan, Oath of Vengeance and Opium Eaters), I was quite taken by his depth of knowledge of Muslim Culture. In fact in the third novel Opium Eaters Harold showed how opium provides funds for the Taliban's war against America and their imposition of democracy on Afghanistan. It reveals the frustrations of the Americans who are unable to destroy the opium smuggling from the root source- the tribal areas of Afghanistan to the Ports of Pakistan. "His books...a marvelous read...show us a world we generally get to read about but rarely are a part of." Deepti Lamba, editor for Desicritics, Things that Bang. "In his novel, An Oath of Vengeance, Harold Bergsma weaves a literary web which snares genre-junkies, mystery-lovers and hopeless romantics. This novel's erratic plotline and scandalously intriguing characters will leave readers yearning for book three (Opium Eaters) to hit the shelves." Stuart A Chipman, Valley Vanguard Weekly Columnist, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan. Harold Bergsma's An Oath of Vengeance received a Notable Award Certificate in Writer's Digest 16th Annual International Self-Published Book awards
The Chest of Opium
Author: Julian Croskey
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Category : Horror
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Horror
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Miscellaneous laws
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
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