The Opium Clerk by Kunal Basu

The Opium Clerk

Kunal Basu

500 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

fiction historical informative mysterious slow-paced
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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, ...

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