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The Opium Clerk

The Opium Clerk

by KunalBasu (Author)

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    Hardcover 2001

    $23.83
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 500
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 10 May 2001
ISBN 10: 186159190X
ISBN 13: 9781861591906
Book Overview: Colourful, ambitious, dazzling, The Opium Clerk marks the debut of a new star. Jeanette Winterson says of Basu, 'The feeling of a long dream - nightbound, subterranean, images rising to the surface to be caught by the sun. The sound of voices - distant then near. The sound of one voice, in it's own key, singing the dream into daylight. This is Kunal Basu. Listen to him.'

Author Bio
Kunal Basu is 42. He was born in Calcutta but has spent much of his adult life in Canada where he teaches at McGill university. For the last year he has lived and worked in Oxford although he travels regularly to Canada, China and India in the course of his work. He has previously published short stories in the London Magazine and other publications.