Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788172237202
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Hiran Is Born In 1857: The Year Of Mutiny And The Year His Father Dies. Brought To Calcutta By His Widowed Mother He Turns Out To Have Few Talents, Apart From An Uncanny Ability To Read A Man'S Lies In His Palm. When Luck Gets Him A Job At The Auction House, Hiran Finds Himself Embroiled In A Mysterious Trade, And Even More Deeply Embroiled In The Affairs Of His Nefarious Superior, The Infamous Mr Jonathan Crabbe And His Opium Addicted Wife. An Unlikely Hero, Hiran Is Caught Up In Rebellion And War, Buffeted By Storms At Sea, By Love And Intrigue, Innocently Implicated In Fraud And Dark Dealings.
Opinum Clerk The
Author: Kunal Basu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788172237202
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Hiran Is Born In 1857: The Year Of Mutiny And The Year His Father Dies. Brought To Calcutta By His Widowed Mother He Turns Out To Have Few Talents, Apart From An Uncanny Ability To Read A Man'S Lies In His Palm. When Luck Gets Him A Job At The Auction House, Hiran Finds Himself Embroiled In A Mysterious Trade, And Even More Deeply Embroiled In The Affairs Of His Nefarious Superior, The Infamous Mr Jonathan Crabbe And His Opium Addicted Wife. An Unlikely Hero, Hiran Is Caught Up In Rebellion And War, Buffeted By Storms At Sea, By Love And Intrigue, Innocently Implicated In Fraud And Dark Dealings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788172237202
Category : Indic fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Hiran Is Born In 1857: The Year Of Mutiny And The Year His Father Dies. Brought To Calcutta By His Widowed Mother He Turns Out To Have Few Talents, Apart From An Uncanny Ability To Read A Man'S Lies In His Palm. When Luck Gets Him A Job At The Auction House, Hiran Finds Himself Embroiled In A Mysterious Trade, And Even More Deeply Embroiled In The Affairs Of His Nefarious Superior, The Infamous Mr Jonathan Crabbe And His Opium Addicted Wife. An Unlikely Hero, Hiran Is Caught Up In Rebellion And War, Buffeted By Storms At Sea, By Love And Intrigue, Innocently Implicated In Fraud And Dark Dealings.
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.
Lord's Oregon Laws
National Drug Clerk
The Ceylon Blue Book
Courtesans and Opium
Author: Hanshangmengren
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148224
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A chilling tale of seduction and vice set in the illiciit world of nineteenth-century China.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148224
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A chilling tale of seduction and vice set in the illiciit world of nineteenth-century China.
Reports on the Administration of the Excise Dept. [Abkari and Opium] in the Bombay Presidency, Sind, and Aden
Author: Bombay (India : State). Excise Dept
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The American Drug Clerks Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pharmaceutical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Bradys and the Opium Syndicate; Or, After the "Marquis" of Mott Street
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description